We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

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

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

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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

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

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.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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

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.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

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

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

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

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.

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

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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

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

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

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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.

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.

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.‘

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.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

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

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

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