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

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

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.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

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.

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.

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

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

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

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 believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

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

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.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

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

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.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

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.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

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.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

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.

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

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

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

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

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

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

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.