For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and…

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it…

— Zachary Taylor

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

— Henry A. Wallace

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very…

— Colin Greenwood

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our…

— Gore Vidal

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

— Ralph Nader

The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason…

— Xi Jinping

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

— Antonio Porchia

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as…

— Henri Poincare

Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with…

— Edward Jenks

The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount…

— J. R. D. Tata

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to…

— Julius Shulman

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later,…

— Michael Douglas

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

— Arnold Kling