We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and read more

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.