In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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.

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.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

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

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

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.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

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.

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.

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

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

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.

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

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

History, a distillation of rumour.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

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

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

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

‚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.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

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

History is written by the victors.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

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

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

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

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

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

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.