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

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" This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. "

" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "

" A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected. "

William Shockley

" The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. "

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

" Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. "

" I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. "

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

Carter G. Woodson

" People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. "

" The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent. "

Tammy Duckworth

" 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. "

Francois Mitterrand

" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "

Stephen Hawking

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

David Cronenberg

" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "

" Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. "

Honore de Balzac

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Catherine Helen Spence

" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "

" The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. "

" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. "