The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.