I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then,… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Innovation has stalled in the banking industry. While the rest of the world is in the digital age, banking remains stagnant. We… — Jay Sidhu Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate,… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic.… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical:… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
