Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

While we read history we make history.

While we read history we make history.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

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

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

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.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

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

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