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.

Today for the first time in history a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land once a distant outpost of the pagan world has become through the preaching of the Gospel a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world so far justice is always in jeopardy.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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 learned the value of research in World War II.

Peace plenty and contentment reign throughout our borders and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside 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.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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.

Following the light of the sun we left the Old World.