Social 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.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Madam 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.

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.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

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

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

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

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.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

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.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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

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 repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

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

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.

History 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.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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.

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.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

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

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

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

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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

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

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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.

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

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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

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

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.