I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Empire and liberty.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

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.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.