"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall." - Jawaharlal NehruTweet
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas JeffersonTweet
"The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money." - Shimon PeresTweet
"Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation." - Luis GutierrezTweet
"The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'" - Jennifer SkyTweet
"The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties." - Terry EagletonTweet
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." - Theodore RooseveltTweet
"I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me." - Nikki GiovanniTweet
"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident." - Kathryn BigelowTweet
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. BeardTweet