Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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!

Sometimes - history needs a push.

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter while oblivion is the reward of the former.

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 main thing is to make history not to write it.

In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Without question the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Without words without writing and without books there would be no history there could be no concept of humanity.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now and you and I will not be around to see it.

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

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these he may venture to call himself an architect.

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.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

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.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

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.