It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

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

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

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.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

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.‘

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

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.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

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

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

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

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

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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

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.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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

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.

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

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.