Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

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 Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

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.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

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 aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

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

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration’s militancy and aggressiveness.

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.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

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

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

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

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

History should be written as philosophy.

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!

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

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.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

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.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.