The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

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

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

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

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

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.

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

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

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

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

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

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.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

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

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

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

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

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

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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.

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

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.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

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

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

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