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

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

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

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

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

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

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 think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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.

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

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

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 come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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 history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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

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.‘

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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