The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more

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.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so read more

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention read more

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.

History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to read more

History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.