History Making Quotes:

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Writing, Men, History, Making History, Written History

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Dream, Peace, Future, Inspirational Future, Inspirational History

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

source: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, p.24, Vintage

topic: History, History Making

I am so proud to be running with another strong history-making woman, Hillary Clinton, to be president of the United States. I'm proud because her vision of stronger together, building an economy that works for all, not just those at the top, being safe in the world, not only with a strong military, but also strong alliances to battle terrorism and climate change, and also to build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do 65 years ago. That's why I'm so proud to be her running mate.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Running, Strong, Military, Stronger Together, History Making

Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

- C. Wright Mills

source: "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

topic: Mean, People, World, Intricate, History Making

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

- Dan Rather

topic: Running, Real, Fighting, Connecticut, Gore

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

- W. H. Auden

source: Dyer's Hand (1963) "D. H. Lawrence"

topic: Past, Men, History, History Making

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Giving Up, Issues, Ethos, History Making

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

- William Ernest Hocking

source: William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

topic: Historical, Understanding, May, History Making

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

- George W Truett

topic: Jesus, Men, Atheism, New Era, History Making

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

- Major Owens

topic: Rights, Two, People, People With Disabilities, History Making