3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
3 December 2020 David Icke And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
3 December 2020 Peter Berger The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills Life doesn’t just happen it’s constructed through the history of power. And that’s something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that’s trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
3 December 2020 Evita Peron Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
3 December 2020 Dante Alighieri Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
3 December 2020 T. Boone Pickens In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.
3 December 2020 Emma Watson I’m really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
3 December 2020 Marty Meehan Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
3 December 2020 Andy Grove There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline.
3 December 2020 Vivienne Westwood I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
3 December 2020 Dominic Monaghan If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.
3 December 2020 Bill Nighy I don’t seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn’t help me. Precedents don’t inform my experience.
3 December 2020 David Hume The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
3 December 2020 James K. Polk Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
