What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?

What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

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.