781 Quotes Found
"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
"History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security."
"In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us."
"For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world."
"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."
"Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history."
"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
"It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world."
"Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them."
"Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history."
"It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight."
"Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk."
"Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have."
"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York."
"If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history."
"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
"I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'"
"I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim."
"While history never repeats itself, political patterns do."
"When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence."
"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong."
"Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life."
"Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things."
"Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country."
"With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot."
"But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling."
"Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines."
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
"Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence."
"Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days."
"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before."
"I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term."
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
"If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy."
"Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war."
"We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people."
"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."
"And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died."
"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
"Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice."
"Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history."
"Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace."
"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."
"The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history."
"World history is tragic."
"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"
"We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability."
"Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass."
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."
"I'm not sure history has ended."
"Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well."
"I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes."
"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."
"Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States."
"I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."
"Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here."
"I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life."
"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."
"I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history."
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
"To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters."
"I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone."
"With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them."
"God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended."
"There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys."
"Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect."
"I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe."
"It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis."
"In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed."
"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
"If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history."
"From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is."
"When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased."
"I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history."
"I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything."
"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life."
"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development."
"To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance."
"Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation."
"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."
"History can never be covered up."
"Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists."
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
"It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world."
"Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things."
"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."
"A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'"
"The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original."
"Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama."
"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
"'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it."
"More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about."
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
"Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel."
"The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society."
"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory."
"The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation."
"My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction."
"I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family."
"My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher."
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country."
"Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history."
"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident."
"I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history."
"Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships."
"But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted."
"We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had."
"The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on."
"Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family."
"Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry."
"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
"Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history."
"I'll watch any show on the History Channel."
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history."
"Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history."
"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."
"It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere."
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties."
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."
"If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one."
"The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'"
"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
"We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt."
"Strip malls are history."
"China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon."
"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."
"History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums."
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
"I think you can learn from history."
"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."
"Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics."
"If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch."
"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."
"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival."
"People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history."
"It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence."
"In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it."
"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost."
"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
"The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better."
"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
"War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups."
"Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."
"I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National."
"The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs."
"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war."
"The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history."
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition."
"Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves."
"When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature."
"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party."
"From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history."
"I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up."
"History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom."
"I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history."
"I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever."
"History is always changing."
"In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long."
"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's."
"He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."
"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
"If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle."
"I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?"
"I like American history."
"When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble."
"I want to go down in history."
"This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts."
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
"Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing."
"I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life."
"For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'"
"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective."
"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."
"I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that."
"I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products."
"The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax."
"I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school."
"These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror."
"Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it."
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
"I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience."
"In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that."
"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
"I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world."
"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."
"We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities."
"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history."
"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
"Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins."
"If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow."
"I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts."
"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
"Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture."
"History passes the final judgment."
"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune."
"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
"When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history."
"He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied."
"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
"I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people."
"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."
"India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country."
"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."
"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history."
"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course."
"I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is."
"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."
"Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush."
"A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history."
"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."
"Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God."
"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
"There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits."
"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that."
"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'"
"Great writing can be done in biography, history, art."
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
"Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe."
"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."
"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
"A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
"We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history."
"Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives."
"Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself."
"Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing."
"Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929."
"One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity."
"If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."
"The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times."
"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."
"I did not come to NASA to make history."
"OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us."
"Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."
"History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right."
"But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."
"It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'"
"The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians."
"If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history."
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
"As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry."
"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it."
"I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives."
"We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be."
"Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things."
"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
"The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness."
"With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much."
"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man."
"From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next."
"Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books."
"The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality."
"There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe."
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."
"I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American."
"For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history."
"I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history."
"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
"Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved."
"Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity."
"Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another."
"After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes."
"Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history."
"I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good."
"Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal."
"Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now."
"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
"If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea."
"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5, 000 years of history."
"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."
"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."
"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
"If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there."
"Natural history is not about producing fables."
"The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing."
"Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow."
"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."
"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
"I'm inspired by history, different periods."
"The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags."
"I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science."
"There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq."
"Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it."
"Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that."
"When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on."
"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages."
"Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward."
"I normally ignore the History Channel."
"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."
"If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia."
"My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with."
"It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany."
"In history people dressed much better than we do today."
"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct."
"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
"You're going to relegate my history to a month."
"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."
"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."
"I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern."
"Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need."
"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans."
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."
"Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."
"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."
"Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents."
"World history is a court of judgment."
"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
"Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history."
"The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money."
"I do consider myself part of black history."
"I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?"
"When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity."
"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."
"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point."
"There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come."
"Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications."
"Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent."
"Robots have a rich and storied history in movies."
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."
"From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours."
"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
"I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era."
"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet."
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted 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."
"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens."
"History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it."
"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."
"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban, ' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway."
"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
"Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried."
"What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life."
"America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system."
"So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."
"My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced."
"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."
"The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history."
"Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay."
"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."
"Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history."
"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
"I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down."
"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."
"I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God."
"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."
"I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century."
"Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much."
"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."
"American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation."
"All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!"
"But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?"
"I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history."
"Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?"
"There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem."
"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history."
"No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948."
"It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race."
"The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history."
"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
"If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues."
"It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again."
"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."
"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."
"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy."
"I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent."
"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."
"I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition."
"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."
"History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice."
"Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present."
"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
"I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings."
"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism."
"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now."
"Our history is not our destiny."
"From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history."
"I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history."
"I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person."
"I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me."
"The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular."
"All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight."
"Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea."
"Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again."
"There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things."
"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."
"You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough."
"The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm."
"Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank."
"Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history."
"This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country."
"The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
"History takes time. History makes memory."
"I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class."
"My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me."
"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."
"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
"In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story."
"Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead."
"I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school."
"Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia."
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
"Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other."
"History is Philosophy teaching by example."
"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."
"Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process."
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
"After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human 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."
"It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually."
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
"Black history is American history."
"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
"Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too."
"Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open."
"Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed."
"I think the materialist conception of history is valid."
"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."
"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history."
"So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was."
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
"There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made."
"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream."
"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."
"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
"'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not."
"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."
"Value people on their potential, not on their history."
"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."
"In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame."
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
"If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"
"Sometimes - history needs a push."
"The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."
"I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way."
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
"In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient."
"Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."
"The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it."
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."
"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
"I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."
"Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good."
"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."
"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
"In Jewish history there are no coincidences."
"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically."
"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."
"Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us."
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history."
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about."
"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young."
"Ideas shape the course of history."
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
"Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan."
"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
"I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life."
"Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."
"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed."
"A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork."
"All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts."
"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
"I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history."
"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
"History shows that there are no invincible armies."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in."
"I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me."
"The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal."
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."
"If you think you have it tough, read history books."
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
"Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
"One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history."
"No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are."
"The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up."
"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule."
"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."
"Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves."
"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."
"Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard."
"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."
"Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world."
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."
"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
"Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy."
"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
"We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them."
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."
"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!"
"This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath."
"History, a distillation of rumour."
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."
"Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?"
"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."
"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
"Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena."
"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
"Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them."
"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."
"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
"President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history."
"History should be written as philosophy."
"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it."
"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
"History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them."
"History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
"I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250, 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
"Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history."
"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."
"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time."
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
"I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture."
"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
"History is written by the victors."
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."
"You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch."
"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."
"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."
"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
"That great dust-heap called 'history'."
"France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history."
"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."
"We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind."
"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
"We learned the value of research in World War II."
"In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly."
"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
"Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life."
"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."
"Libraries are not made, they grow."
"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."
"You have to look at history as an evolution of society."
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship, ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision."
"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world."
"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."
"Time is my greatest enemy."
"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."
"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace."
"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."
"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."
"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."
"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."
"It's a very good historical book about history."
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."
"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
"History is a vast early warning system."
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."
"Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."
"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."
"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world."
"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages."
"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."
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"
"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"History is more or less bunk."
"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."