Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, read more

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after read more

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always read more

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.