"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"History takes time. History makes memory"

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker"

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him"

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice"

"History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them"

"I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered"

"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments"