It’s a very good historical book about history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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 shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

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

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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

What is past is prologue.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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.

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.