I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
I let the American people down.
