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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a read more
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory read more
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
