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" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "

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" There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "

James Howard Kunstler

" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" I am responsible only to God and history. "

Francisco Franco

" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" I like winning, and I worked too hard to get where am at now. I'm not giving it up. "

" A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. "

John Maynard Keynes

" In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

" A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. "

Robert Zoellick

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Every fight's like that. You try to break the guy's will. "

" The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. "

" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "

" A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. "

Rabih Alameddine

" I was France. "

Charles de Gaulle

" The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. "

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. "

Catherine Helen Spence

" I just want to work hard and have good fights. "

" Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. "

Thurgood Marshall

" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "

" Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. "

" Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents. "