Canada was built on dead beavers.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

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.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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

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.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

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.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

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.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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.

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

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

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.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

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.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.