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

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

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

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

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

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

London is a roost for every bird.

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.

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

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

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.

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

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

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

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.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

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.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.