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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.