Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest as they say is history.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which in turn can become history. It's scary.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first and deadly afterwards.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

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.

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.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

When you think of how history is revealed we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history which has been either suppressed or distorted.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease I think is gonna be guinea worm.