Pastoral Resources

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

The Thames is liquid history.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.