In retrospect the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
For the first time in the history of mankind one generation literally has the power to destroy the past the present and the future the power to bring time to an end.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water but that's about it.
I grew up in Europe where the history comes from.
Throughout its history the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity friendship peace and universal understanding.
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability anarchy and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Value your freedom or you will lose it teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty and freedom. It is the history of our nation and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation the expansion of women's rights or now gay rights I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.