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" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "

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" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

Margaret Thatcher

World

Without

" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "

" I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety. "

" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "

" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "

" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

" I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston. "

" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. "

" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "

" One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. "

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. "

" History never looks like history when you are living through it. "

" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "

" 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. "

" History should be written as philosophy. "

" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "

" Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. "

" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

Forward

Stand

" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "

" While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm. "

" I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you. "

" That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. "