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

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

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

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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

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

Empire and liberty.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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

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

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.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

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

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

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.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

History should be written as philosophy.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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.

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.