I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

We were meant to survive because of our minds’ ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

It’s the same group of guys, mind you, that was the worst team in Penn State history.

We’re taking a valuable property with a well-regarded history on Kauai and redeveloping its purpose and potential, … The result will be a first-class resort of beauty and function offering an exceptional experience for vacationers...

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life;...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

We will look back on speech recognition software that became truly useful in the year 2000 as the real Y2K revolution.

This is the first time in the history of the school that a team has gone to the Final Four in back-to-back seasons. This team has set history. I can’t tell you how proud of...

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one...

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

History’s a bitch when you’re in the middle of it.

Bagaimanapun orang-orang yang punya dosa tidak akan berhasil. Mereka selalu jatuh ke dalam air – St. Petrus

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

Angkatan bersenjata kami tidak diciptakan oleh negara, melainkan muncul secara spontan dari akar rumput, dari rakyat dan untuk rakyat.

Waktu itu aku tidak mengerti maknanya. Buju itu menceritakan bagaimana daun-daun kayu yang sudah cokelat dan kering harus jatuh untuk memberikan tempat kepada pucuk yang hijau dan baru. Tiga dasawarsa kemudian barulah aku mengerti.

Seseorang jangan melibatkan dirinya ke dalam perjuangan hidup-mati, jika dia sebelumnya tidak insyaf akan akibatnya. Pihak musuh akan memgerahkan segala daya, lagi dan lagi, agar dapat mempertahankan cengkramannya. Tapi, sekalipun selama berabad-abad mereka menjebloskan puluhan...

There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.

How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines,...

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

I have the worst kind of history—a non history. I wasn’t born poor, oppressed, rich, famous, or any other such extreme. I was born in the middle, and I desperately want to hide it.

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

[Merlin – on realizing the he’d killed a man with his magic.]It was easy. It shouldn’t have been so easy to do something so big. … So final…[Gaius] …Oh Merlin! With magic or without it...

In conclusion,’ he said, ‘one may safely say that is would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits...

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would...

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call “history.” Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality...

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.

The words ‘bad timing’ came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning…they did not realize that it was ridiculous...

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too.

If you look at the history of the game it has happened to every great player: Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Marcus Allen. You can go down the list, that there is transition.

The drinking dens are spilling outThere’s staggering in the squareThere’s lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody’s looking forSomebody’s arms to fall intoAnd it’s...

No Zionist element, right or left, understood the Fascist phenomenon. From the first, they were indifferent to the struggle of the Italian people, including progressive Jews, against the blackshirts and Fascism’s larger implications for European...

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in...

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out— Anne Boleyn was Tudor England’s Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

we are blessed to live at a time of broader respect for basic human rights than ever before in history.

Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man’s dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century...

Jason has a history of being out on the plate and keeping his elbow guard on the plate. I told him to move it back and he came after me. I was surprised, but I’m...

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of...

I think we’ve reached a point in our history as a people and as a nation that we’ve almost come full circle,

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary...

The Black campaign has been subjected to a scrutiny unlike any other campaign in the history of North Carolina. And yes, we have found it faulty in some respects.

But, mad or sane, Matthews was a man of no ordinary persistence. He was not prepared to renounce the peace plan, any more than he would be prepared to renounce his madness a few years...