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

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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.

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.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

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

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.

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.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

What is past is prologue.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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.‘

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.

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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

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

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.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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

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

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.