Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me read more

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it read more

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

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.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.