For most of our history no one dared to tell Americans 'you don't build that.'

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.

Of course nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history and playing football. But I was only interested in girls my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

In my early 20s I studied history and politics and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

I think that both men Bush and Blair will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country as a united nation has never in its entire history enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not 'What happened?' but rather 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have the more we grow.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

We have need of history in its entirety not to fall back into it but to see if we can escape from it.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.