I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

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

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.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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.

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.

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

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

History should be written as philosophy.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

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.

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

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.

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.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

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.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The FBI should not be a political body.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

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

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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

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

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

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!

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

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.