We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

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

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

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

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

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.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

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.

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

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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.

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.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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

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

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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

History, a distillation of rumour.

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.

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.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

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.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

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

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

‚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 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.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

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.

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.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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

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.

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

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

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.