People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.