I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

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.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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 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.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

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

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

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

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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

Every 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.

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.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

The 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.

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

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.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

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

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Returning 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.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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.