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History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is read more
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning read more
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first
distinct product of man's spiritual read more
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first
distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest
expression of what can be called Thought.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and read more
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
