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

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.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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

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

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

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

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

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

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

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.

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.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

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

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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.

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

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.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

History is written by the victors.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

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

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

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.‘

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

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.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

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.