Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something read more

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.