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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
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.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
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?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.