Modern History Quotes

• Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

  James Dickey

  Men, Flying, Pilots

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• I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Two, Accomplishment

  "Where is America's missing foreign policy?" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2014.

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• A turning point in modern history.

  Robert Frost

  America, History, Modern

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Turkeys, Numbers, Race

  Herbert Adams Gibbons (1916). “The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities”

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• Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

  David Ogilvy

  Education, Men, Creation Of Man

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• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

  Ken Salazar

  Real, Oil, Vision

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• But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Abuse, Ignorant

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• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  Learned Hand

  Political, Support, Doubt

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Hands, Evil, May

  Andrew Dickson White (1960). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”

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• Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.

  Linda Colley

  Military, Taken, People

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.8, Yale University Press

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• In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Turkeys, Long

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• It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Views, Years, Magic

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  Nancy Reagan

  Country, Husband, Leader

  "Margaret Thatcher dies: news and reaction" by Andrew Sparrow, Barry Neild, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

  Emma Watson

  Degrees, Modern, Brown

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Writing, History, Teeth

  'The History of the World' (1614) preface

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• It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Football, Party, Fighting

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• Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

  Eric Bolling

  Hands, President, Modern

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.

  Amity Shlaes

  Book, Cutting, Sometimes

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.

  William Kristol

  Party, Different, Today

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  President, Incentives, Littles

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

  Yvette Clarke

  Rights, August, Memorial

  "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

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• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Time, Europe, History

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• Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Country, Religious, Government

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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