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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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.
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.