History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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

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

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‚Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?‘

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

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.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

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

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

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

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

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

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

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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

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.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

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.

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

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

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

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.