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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world problems at once but do not ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

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

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.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God gift, that is why we call it the present.

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

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.