For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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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.
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
