It’s a very good historical book about history.

London is a roost for every bird.

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

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

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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.

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

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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

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

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 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.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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.

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.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

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

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.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Empire and liberty.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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

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

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!

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

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

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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

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

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

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

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

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.