A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

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.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.