And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

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.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a confused heap of facts.

History is a confused heap of facts.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to read more

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair read more

The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.