We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy CarterSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac NewtonSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous HuxleyReturning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.
Lady GagaThe former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam ChomskyWhen the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond TutuI love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice WalkerWhen the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill GatesLife 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.
Richard M. NixonThe first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
Noam ChomskyI believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra ModiFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconLondon is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin DisraeliReligions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand RussellEverybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy GrahamMan has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Elon MuskPeople who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIndia is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston ChurchillThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald ReaganThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy CarterI tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
Jim CarreyThe history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz KafkaWhen will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin FranklinIndia has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Bill GatesIndeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireIf we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonNo nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.
Joe BidenHistorically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThose parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
Thomas SowellThere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George WashingtonI was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.
Madeleine AlbrightIf past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren BuffettHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve JobsLeadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.
Henry KissingerNewspapers 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.
Arthur SchopenhauerFortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
Bill GatesFrom my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra ModiAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi‚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.
Christopher HitchensEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreRevolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl MarxI was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham LincolnBorn to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
Fidel CastroI stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
Noam ChomskyFrom their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous HuxleySocial struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel CastroTreachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.
Jim MattisMuch of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Narendra ModiWe have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEurope became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
Desmond TutuHistory is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillAnd they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
Robert KiyosakiThe trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice WalkerPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II