If history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten.

Personally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Rome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Today for the first time in history a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land once a distant outpost of the pagan world has become through the preaching of the Gospel a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.

If past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.

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

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land their culture their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

I think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations study hell.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Of all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed which is wanting in general history.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough, or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See you did it yourself.'

I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression, we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Study history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Tradition is an important help to history but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

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.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I am what time circumstance history have made of me certainly but I am also much more than that. So are we all.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

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.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history dating back to the time millions of years ago when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock tossed the rock into the air and whomped the club into the sl

The happiest women like the happiest nations have no history.

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

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Those of us who have gathered here... we owe something from this minute on so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions of real interests and materials is indirect, because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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 history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of public opinion.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

In its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves together with the counsels and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.

I believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature. I'd put it right up there.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Tell them from me they are unloading history.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire that it is destructive of both as all their history shows for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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.

In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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

The Balkans produce more history than they can consume

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

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

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