If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
