To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Vladimir Lenin

In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam in the history we make today.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Dalai LamaSpiritual Leader

Elon MuskBusinessman