No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“Marco Polo’s father, Niccolò Polo, traded with the Persians who were known to the early Europeans. These early Persians came from the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance?… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“At the end of 2012, the yield on nominal bonds was about 2 percent. The only way that bonds could generate a… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Ever since Hegel, world history, in contrast to historia , seems to be precisely what one has not seen and experienced, inquired… — Karl Löwith Copy Share Image
Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Campaigns and elections are not a game. They're not a game. They're about trying to change America. We're the wealthiest country in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
