Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“modern U.S. history. For an American president to be this insensitive to the security needs of Israel at a time of such… — Reed Ralph Copy Share Image
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel.… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“am not making any predictions, but the Bible seems to indicate that instead of the Palestinians taking over the West Bank, the… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, nations fought two kinds of wars: on land and at sea. In the twentieth century, that expanded to… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I remember watching rioters in Panama, for example, smashing shop windows, allegedly in the name of freedom and democracy, but laughing as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others… — Cassi Janzek Copy Share Image
I have no question that the Roman Catholic Church teaches that abortion in virtually all circumstances is wrong. I think the church's… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“We hold further that Communism is not only desirable, but that existing societies, founded on Individualism, are inevitably impelled in the direction… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Werewolves are not the subject of academe,” she said, “but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. ‘Monsters… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“We were stumbling sluts married to mud. When the war was over, nobody bothered to tell us. Our tragedy was permanent. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such… — Geoffrey Jensen Copy Share Image
In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its… — Carl Oglesby Copy Share Image