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

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.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

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.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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

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.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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

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

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

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

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

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

I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.

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.

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

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.

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.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

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

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

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

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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

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

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

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