Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. Bush

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James A. Baldwin

If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Bill Maher

History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman