Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

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

What is past is prologue.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

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

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

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

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.

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.

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

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

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

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

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

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.

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

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

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

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

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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