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.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

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.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

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

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

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

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.