The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

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

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

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

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

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

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

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

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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.

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

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

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

History should be written as philosophy.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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

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.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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

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

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

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.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

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.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

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