We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory read more

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or read more

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