Historical Parallel Quotes

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

America faced its first hostage crisis in the Middle East… Thomas Jefferson was President and over 100 Americans were being held hostage by Arabs from the Barbary Coast and the Arabs believed that if they were killed, they would go immediately to heaven. 220 years later America is still facing the same problem.

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Scotland is the Canada of England!

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

I think the West is in a low point we haven't seen since the 1930s.

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

The origins of the two republics are so much alike that the history of one seems but a transcript of the other: so that every Dutchman instructed in the subject must pronounce the American Revolution just and necessary … an action which has been approved and applauded by mankind and justified by the decision of Heaven …

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

Free Englishmen had independently settled North America in precisely the same their Saxon ancestors … had possessed themselves of the island of Britain.

You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

In the past, some natives used to collude with Britishers. In the same way, YSRCP is now colluding with Centre.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.

The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.