The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the read more

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or read more

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

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.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It read more

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.