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

Religions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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.

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

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it check the cash register.

If a race has no history if it has no worthwhile tradition it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

For most of history Anonymous was a woman.

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.

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

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

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

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.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

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.

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.

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.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.