Book Quote by David Letterman

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“There’s no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of…

— Isaac Asimov

“I told him that neither he nor anyone else should ever underestimate the strength and power of the United States: those who had—Imperial Germany,…

— Robert M. Gates

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I have met some of the people that run USA nuclear power plants and I found them to be shady!”

— Steven Magee

“Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history”

— Owl City

“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of…

— Albert Einstein

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to…

— Arundhati Roy

“American power made it possible for Europeans to believe that power was no longer important." -Robert Kagan”

— George Weigel

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

“Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part…

— Michael Crichton