History

“To understand a culture is to say to yourself, If I’d been living then I could conceive that I could have believed that and remained rational and been quite a decent sort of person.”

“The answer is within us, our own history, our own rich culture.”

“How could we expect otherwise? World organization is still a new adventure in human history.”

“Ma découverte interesse toutes les nations, et c’est pour toutes les nations que je veux faire et mon histoire et mon apologie.”

“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”

“I never saw myself as a pioneer. It was only later, looking back, that it occurred to me that I was.”

“Tradition is not constant and static; it grows and builds.”

“It is liberty which is ancient, and despotism which is modern.”

“This American team is stronger than the Dream Team from 1992.”

“أنا لا أتحدث عن الماضي، أتحدث عن التاريخ.”

“We didn’t have the entourages they have today - coaches, hitting partners, massage therapists, fitness coaches. In those days, no one could afford that.”

“The only way for us to become great, and indeed—if this is possible—inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“私はドーハの悲劇は終わりではなく、新たな歴史の始まりになる──4年間の足踏みを余儀なくされたにせよ、本大会に駒を進める日はすぐに訪れるだろうと確信していた。”

“The nation cannot be pulled up by its roots, cannot be dissociated from its past, without danger to its highest interests.”

“By definition he cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.”

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

“The Lebanese had created, preserved, defended, affirmed and advanced an expansive and liberal civilization.”