“He's a scholar and somewhat of an academic, and has studied our history and America's place in the world, in history, and believes that all the progress of the last century, or a goodly portion of it -- eradication of tyrants and communism and fascism and Hitlerism -- was a direct result of the strength of the United States of America and their willingness to use their strength for good.”
Mary Matalin
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
C.S. Lewis
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”
“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.”
Alexander MacLaren
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy