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.