Now there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

For one who reads there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived for fiction biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world in all periods of time.

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

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

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.

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.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined permanently blocked as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

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.

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

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

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy and we like them will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore I have to beat somebody.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Well there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.

I think it's important that as a matter of course the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

Since the 1960s there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with those parts of the cow were removed and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.