History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, read more

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory read more

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.