Gertrude Stein

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

Henry James

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

Henry A. Kissinger

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there."

Margaret Thatcher

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."

William Manchester

"It's a very good historical book about history."

Dan Quayle

"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."

Evita Peron

"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

H. L. Mencken

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

John F. Kennedy

"Libraries are not made, they grow."

Augustine Birrell

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

Louis D. Brandeis

"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."

Charles de Gaulle

"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."

Marge Piercy

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."

Herbert Hoover

"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."

William O. Douglas

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

Kofi Annan

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."

James Polk

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

James A. Baldwin

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

Dan Quayle

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

John Quincy Adams

"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."

David M. Shoup

"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."

Anwar Sadat

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

Frank Herbert

"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."

Prince Charles