I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.