Definition of Historically

Historically

In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.

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Accordance, History, In, Manner, Of, Or, The, With

Historically Quotations

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Martin Heidegger

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary Clinton

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.
Hillary Clinton

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
Huston Smith

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
Jim Rogers

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
Jared Diamond

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
Pete Seeger

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
Corrine Brown

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
Billy Joel

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
Hu Shih

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Michael Crichton

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
Barney Frank

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
Marvin Olasky

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
Spencer Bachus

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.
Sandra Day O'Connor

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Charles Rangel

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Clifford Geertz

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Rowan D. Williams

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
Ron Chernow

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
Emily Blunt

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy

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historically in German is historischen, historisch

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