We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

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.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

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

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.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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.

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

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Live out of your imagination not your history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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.

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.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In the course of history men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.