The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their read more

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.