History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

I think you can learn from history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

Strip malls are history.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.