People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

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

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.