I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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

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

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great read more

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.