When 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.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History is written by the victors.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

We need more missionaries – more worthy missionaries.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

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.

Empire and liberty.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

By 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.

Man 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.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

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.

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

Africa will thrive.

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.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

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.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

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.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

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

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Yesterday, 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.