De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

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

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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.

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.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

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

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

The Medici created and destroyed me.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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

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

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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.

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

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

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.