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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’

What is not recorded is not remembered.

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.