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" The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. "

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" 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. "

" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "

" I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. "

Dizzy Gillespie

" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "

" We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. "

" We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one. "

" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "

" Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. "

Winston Churchill

" Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. "

Simon Mainwaring

" 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. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. "

" It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors. "

" History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. "

Lawrence Durrell

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "

Aleister Crowley

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

" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "

Hubert de Givenchy

" I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? "

Ferdinand Marcos

" My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. "

" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "

" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "

" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "

" We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. "

Charles Bukowski

" Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. "

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

Barbara Tuchman

" Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. "

Senior Citizens

" For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. "