The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

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 entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

We’ve gotta reinvest in space travel. We should’ve never left the moon.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It’s an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn’t sustainable.

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

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

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

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

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 writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

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

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

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

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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

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.

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

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

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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.

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

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

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

The Eagle has landed.