Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“For years, the suspicion that Mr. Putin has a secret fortune has intrigued scholars, industry analysts, opposition figures, journalists and intelligence agencies… — Peter Baker Copy Share Image
“He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Why is it, that there's no movies, very little very little attention about the greatest Holocaust in the history of the world… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in… — Woody Allen 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 written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths. Thus, it is that we National Socialists… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world.… — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
“In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill.… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image