Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.