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

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!

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

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.‘

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

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.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

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

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

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

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

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

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

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.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

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

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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.

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

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.