#history

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#because #control #easily #educated #general

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #back #building #competing #contrary

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history. ↗

— R. Kelly

#been #down #father #go #gonna

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#like #live #lived #once #permit

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#harvard #hire #his #history #man

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#children #coming #down #families #generation

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#asunder #economics #friends #geography #god

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#comfortable #complacent #confusion #experience #history

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#bend #change #each #events #few