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.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always read more

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to read more

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or read more

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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

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

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it