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.

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of...

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In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason.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...

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

My favourite beauty look is definitely '70s beauty - sun kissed skin, wavy hair and defined eyes.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the...

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part...

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.