Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions of real interests and materials is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

Now there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

History repeats itself and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.

I loved history because to me history was like watching a movie.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing to keep spiritually hungry and horny that's what it's all about.

I believe that history might be and ought to be taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Ideas shape the course of history.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.