#history

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #beyond #desire #expectations #history

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#comfortable #complicates #extraordinarily #him #his

Black history is American history. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#american history #black #black history #history

You're going to relegate my history to a month. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#history #month #you

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ↗

— James Stockdale

#cal #department #down #head #physics

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#clearly #condition #freedom #history #necessary

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#does #fact #history #in fact #us

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #believed #celebrated #cold #cold war

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

— John W. Gardner

#like #living #looks #never #through

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#few #few men #history #men #obtain