‚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.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

History is written by the victors.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

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

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 very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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 Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

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

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

If 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.

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

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The 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.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

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.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The 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.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.