It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Abraham LincolnThe 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Joe BidenFellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham LincolnSometimes 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 JeffersonMy parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Madeleine AlbrightHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Robert KiyosakiThe charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous HuxleyIn the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond Tutu‚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 HitchensIndeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireIf 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.
Jim MattisThe Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
Billy GrahamAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliIt’s a very good historical book about history.
Dan QuayleThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusEver since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
Edmund HillaryTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Noam ChomskyThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonWe must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Salvador DaliBy curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.
Noam ChomskyViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiEvery 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 SartreFor Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouThe 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 GatesIn the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Elizabeth KennyHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouThe Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin LutherWithin the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald ReaganAmerica has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
Henry KissingerIt takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. RooseveltOn October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
Noam ChomskyWhen my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
Mr. TAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauI had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl LagerfeldIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad AliChrist managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘
Terry PratchettIf you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Lou HoltzI’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.
Billy GrahamI don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
Fidel CastroHistorically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyThe whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian EnoAt least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CummingsAll the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank ZappaSome may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Noam ChomskyThe 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 WalkerA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma GandhiIn 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.
Noam ChomskyI believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Lyndon B. JohnsonYesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
Franklin D. RooseveltHistory, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas JeffersonReturning 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 GagaMan is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl JungThe entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.
Ruth Bader GinsburgAmerica had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar WildeHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower