England is a nation of shopkeepers.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

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

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

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

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.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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 business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

What is past is prologue.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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

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.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

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.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

London is a roost for every bird.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

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

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

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

‚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.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.