Historic Quotes

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. (John le Carré)
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. View quote
Fiona Apple
If we do not succeed with political union...then the historic decline of Europe which began with the First World War will resume. View quote
Jacques Delors
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. View quote
Norm Dicks
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. View quote
Kingoro Hashimoto
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. View quote
Howard Zinn
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society. View quote
Edward Heath
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens. View quote
Menachem Begin
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
To dismiss the history of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist Party, to dismiss Lenin and Stalin, and to dismiss everything else is to engage in historic nihilism, and it confuses our thoughts and undermines the party's organizations on all levels. (Xi Jinping)
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. ... [T]he primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state. View quote
Larry Hogan
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. View quote
Christa McAuliffe
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved in a tornado. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey. View quote
Alexander Ovechkin
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. View quote
Enoch Powell
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. View quote
Albert Camus
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. View quote
Gray Davis
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. (Theodor Herzl)
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. View quote
Theodor Herzl
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. View quote
Theodor Herzl
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive. View quote
Samantha Power
We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth. View quote
Kristi Noem