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

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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!

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

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

History is more or less bunk.

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

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

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

History is written by the victors.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

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.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

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.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

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

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

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

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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

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.

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

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

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.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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.

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.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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.

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

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.