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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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.