The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Ideas shape the course of history.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

When the rich think about the poor they have poor ideas.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Great people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

When I was a graduate student the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Acquire a government over your ideas that they may come down when they are called and depart when they are bidden.

Government is force pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

I mean just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing I get an idea about city government and they come the way they come.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo good. If there is ferment so much the better. If there is restlessness I am pleased. Then let there be ideas and hard thought and hard work. If man feels small let man make himself bigger.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.

While negativity is politically useful it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Knowledge about the economy ideas about capitalism and government the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.