The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

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.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

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

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

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

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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.

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

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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.

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

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

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.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.