Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.