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

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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.

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

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

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

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.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

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.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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

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.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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

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.

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.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

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.

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

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

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

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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.

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

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.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

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 stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

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

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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

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.

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.

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 charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.