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.‘

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

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

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

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 Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

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

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

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.

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.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

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

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

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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.

History is more or less bunk.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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.

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

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.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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

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

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

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.‘

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

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

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.