#history

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#american history #be the first #children #fewer #first

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#cycles #gone #history #like #respect

The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#been #being #country #debate #happening

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#history #i #intrigued #man #obscured

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#benefit #bringing #convictions #ideal #irrespective

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#did #enemy #ever #fight #history

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#history #necessary #practically #realization #subject

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#california #had #history #i #i think