Top Historical Quotes
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Warren Christopher
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Raymond Queneau
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug Coupland
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Warren Christopher 
74% of people like this quote
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Raymond Queneau
65% of people like this quote
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug Coupland
64% of people like this quote
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi
63% of people like this quote
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von Helmholtz
62% of people like this quote
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
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Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
Rush Limbaugh
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Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
Sarah Vowell
60% of people like this quote
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