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.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

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.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

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

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

History is more or less bunk.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

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

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

God to me is love.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

I serve God.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.