history Quotes

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

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.