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

Empire and liberty.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

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.

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.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

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.

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.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

London is a roost for every bird.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

What is past is prologue.

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

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.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

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

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

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.

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.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

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

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

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 became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

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

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

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

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.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

History, a distillation of rumour.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.