The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively...

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the...

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows...

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like...

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Democrats during the days of centrist Georgia senator Sam Nunn focused on a strong United States military.

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

Art Nouveau drew inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus drew inspiration from engineering.

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved...

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619....

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his...

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated...

I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see...

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw anything but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at...

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed...

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the...