Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.