It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

History has been the history of warfare.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.