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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

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.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

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 was not everything.

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

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

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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

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

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.

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

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I want to reform the tax code so that it is 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.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

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

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

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.