Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

For the first time in the history of mankind one generation literally has the power to destroy the past the present and the future the power to bring time to an end.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water but that's about it.

I grew up in Europe where the history comes from.

Throughout its history the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity friendship peace and universal understanding.

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.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability anarchy and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Value your freedom or you will lose it teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty and freedom. It is the history of our nation and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation the expansion of women's rights or now gay rights I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to no matter what the sacrifice.

Well the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis an antagonism which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact can simplify the history of human society the evolution of human society as a contest between power and freedom.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

And why do we who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech allow people to go to prison and be vilified and magazines to be closed down on the spot for suggesting another version of history.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all the one in fact that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress behavior career and sexual orientation.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.