The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

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.

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.

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

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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

Empire and liberty.

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.

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.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

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

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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

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.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

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

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.