I did not come to NASA to make history.
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
History develops, art stands still.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
