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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

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

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.

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.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

‚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.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

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

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

London is a roost for every bird.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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.

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

It’s a very good historical book about history.

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

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.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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

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.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

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

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 kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.