Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
We are in an extremely dangerous situation. It was ignorant and ahistorical for Donald Trump to say that the EU will dissolve.… — Anthony Glees Copy Share Image
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
