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.

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.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

The white man is destroying the world.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

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

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

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

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

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

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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.‘

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

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.

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

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

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.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.