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

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

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to read more

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their read more

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.