• "I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him." - Herbert Hoover Tweet
• "I think the materialist conception of history is valid." - Christopher Hitchens Tweet
• "I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major." - Demetri Martin Tweet
• "The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original." - Tony Kushner Tweet
• "In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory." - Hassan Nasrallah Tweet
• "Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States." - Bernie Sanders Tweet
• "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology." - Jonathan Sacks Tweet
• "History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history." - Clarence Darrow Tweet
• "They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech." - James Stockdale Tweet
• "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." - George Bernard Shaw Tweet