Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

While we read history we make history.

While we read history we make history.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they read more

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

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.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.