History is a people's memory and without a memory man is demoted to the lower animals.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

Now when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says look people have learned from history.

The history of the last century shows as we shall see later that the advice given to governments by bankers like the advice they gave to industrialists was consistently good for bankers but was often disastrous for governments businessmen and the people generally.

Value people on their potential not on their history.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

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

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

A people without the knowledge of their past history origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

We peruse one ideal that of bringing people together in peace irrespective of race religion and political convictions for the benefit of mankind.

To people who remember JFK's assassination JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all if people don't want it they won't have it.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home they export it in a certain way by war they make it tour the world.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only but of the whole people of the United States.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

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