Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
