Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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

It’s a very good historical book about history.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

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.

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 say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

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.

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.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

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.

History is more or less bunk.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.