President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

History should be written as philosophy.

Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

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

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

If past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Live out of your imagination not your history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.