I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

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

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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.

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

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

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

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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 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.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

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.

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

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

What is past is prologue.

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

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

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

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

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.