Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair read more

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

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.

A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.

A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

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.