The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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.

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.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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

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.

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.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

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.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

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

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

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

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.

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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.

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

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world 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.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

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.

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.‘

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

Canada was built on dead beavers.

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