We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them read more

The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

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

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

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and read more

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.