Pastoral Resources

I am responsible only to God and history.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Black history is American history.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.