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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be read more
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It read more
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.