Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

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.

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

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

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

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.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

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

Empire and liberty.

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

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.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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

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.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

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.

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

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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.

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.