Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

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.

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

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.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

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.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

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.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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

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

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

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

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

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

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

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.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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

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

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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

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.