The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and read more

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the read more

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.