Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.