The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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 teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they
have exhausted all other alternatives.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.