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

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

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

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

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