Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

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

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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.

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.

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.

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

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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

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.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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.

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.

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.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

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.

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