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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way read more
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History: A distillation of rumor.
History: A distillation of rumor.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after read more
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Give the historians something to write about.
Give the historians something to write about.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
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.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits read more
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
