This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.