Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

While we read history we make history.

While we read history we make history.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons read more

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the read more

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

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?

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.