History -- its what those bitter old men write.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

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.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever read more

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.