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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and read more
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them read more
The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
