True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way read more

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair read more

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.