Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

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

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

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

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

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

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.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

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

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

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

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.

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.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

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.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.