Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. read more

They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.