Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

‚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.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The 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.

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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.

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.

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

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.

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.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

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

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

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.

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

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.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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.

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

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

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.

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

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.