When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
