Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

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

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

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

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.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

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

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

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

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

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

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 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.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

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

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.

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

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

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

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

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.

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

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

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