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.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

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

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

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

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

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

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

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

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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 woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

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

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

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

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

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

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

History is more or less bunk.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

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.

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 Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

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