History(163)

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
Calvin Coolidge

"History is a vast early warning system."
Norman Cousins

"History is philosophy teaching by example."
Dionysius

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."
Benjamin Disraeli

"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
William O. Douglas

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
William O. Douglas

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."
John Foster Dulles

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
Epicurus

"History is more or less bunk."
Henry Ford