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.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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

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

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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

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

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