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

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

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.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

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.

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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 is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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.

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

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.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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.

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

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

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

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

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.‘

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

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

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

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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

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

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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.

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

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

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.