History(163)

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."
Mao Tse-Tung

"We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window."
Stansfield Turner

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
Desmond Tutu

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
Mark Twain

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
H. G. Wells

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
Jessamyn West

"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."
Byron R. White

"I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge."
Theodore White

"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
George Will

"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
George Will