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.

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

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

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Freedom is not enough.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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.

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

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

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

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

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

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

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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.