The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

Israel is excessively joined to America, also affected by America. It ought to be associated with Europe. America depends on folklore – the liberated person, the individual, the open boondocks. Europe is increasingly aware of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your personality through history.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don’t know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

You can put people’s feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we’re constantly creating our own history.

Let us strive for the impossible. Remember the great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed impossible.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world’s culture delineated in faint outline.