Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent literature dumb science crippled thought and speculation at a standstill.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

A strange thing is memory and hope one looks backward and the other forward one is of today the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Well I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that and I would hope somebody liked me.

The worst mistake of first contact made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

If you think you have it tough read history books.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands it also seldom works properly.

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule or ever did rule.