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

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

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.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

What is past is prologue.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

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

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

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

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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 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.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

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

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

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

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

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

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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.

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

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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

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

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

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

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

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

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.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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

History, a distillation of rumour.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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

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

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.