"The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history"

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

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"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 is a set of lies agreed upon"

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

"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"