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" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

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" It's a very good historical book about history. "

" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "

" Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. "

Nestor Carbonell

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

" Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "

" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "

" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "

" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. "

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. "

" A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. "

Aristide Briand

" When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

" 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'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "

" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "

" The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. "

George F. Kennan

" History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "

" There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. "

Benjamin Harrison

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

" Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "

" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered. "

" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Louis D. Brandeis