The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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.

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.

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.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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

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 more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

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

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

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

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.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

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

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

Empire and liberty.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

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.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

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

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

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

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

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.‘

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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

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

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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