Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History should be written as philosophy.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.