I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
History is the propaganda of the victors.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so. . . That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none. . . If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
Europe was initially supposed to be primarily a political project! The EU never would have come about had it been up to experts or diplomats. It was created by people who had learned from the drama of our collective history. I am proposing a new beginning, not one in which it is first deliberated ad infinitum what instruments one needs, but one that follows from the goals we want to achieve.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.
Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.