Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,0, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.