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

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

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.

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.

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

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

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.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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

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

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

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.

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

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

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.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

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

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.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

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

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.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

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.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

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.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.