There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

Wherever you go in the history of America there have been Black people making contributions but their contributions have been obscured lost buried.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

I think the Democrats are catering to them but you know in the entire history of the United States of America there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation never in history.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease I think is gonna be guinea worm.

In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Without words without writing and without books there would be no history there could be no concept of humanity.

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