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 are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
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.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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.
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.
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.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.