History(163)

"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
Herbert Hoover

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
Herbert Hoover

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."
Herbert Hoover

"You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch."
George M. Humphrey

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."
Elizabeth II

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
Henry James

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."
William James

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
Lyndon B. Johnson

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
Lyndon B. Johnson