Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
Dolores HuertaHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleHistory has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. ForbesTo secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von ClausewitzThe 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.
Elvis PresleyI have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry AdamsDomestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. KennedyI believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
Narendra ModiMadam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Queen Elizabeth III want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
Clint EastwoodIt is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai LamaMany things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
Fidel CastroIsrael is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Alice WalkerWe can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald ReaganI 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.
Abraham LincolnI graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe BidenSocial struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel CastroI’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.
Angelina JolieAmerica’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
Joe BidenAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliFor 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.
Michelle ObamaColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Benjamin DisraeliAl Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack ObamaThe notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
VoltaireDuring the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Joe BidenThere is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
Karl MarxI became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodFor a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
Jim MattisJohn 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.
Joe BidenCondemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel CastroIt is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. KennedyThere has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltPeople are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Madeleine AlbrightIn a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.
Barack ObamaI have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
Abraham LincolnGeography 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.
John F. KennedyMan has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Elon MuskMore understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
Jackie ChanIt cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
Noam ChomskyTo have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George EliotIf you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Lou HoltzAuschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
Billy GrahamSome of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Margaret AtwoodI was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
Clint EastwoodThe 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.
John F. KennedyI think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai LamaNewspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe U.N. charter bars the threat of force.
Noam ChomskyNow if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.
Will RogersThe more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya AngelouIsrael is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.
Noam ChomskyIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleI was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.
Madeleine AlbrightHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireThe main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo MachiavelliHistory, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson