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

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

War is the province of danger.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

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

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

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

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

War is a contagion.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

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.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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 United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

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

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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.

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

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.