History quotes

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship, ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.