Quotes About History

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.

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

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.