The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

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

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

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

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

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.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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

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

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

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

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.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Empire and liberty.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

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.

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

History is written by the victors.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.