#History

"I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."

"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.— Winston S. Churchill"

"Know the history of the great ancestors."

"It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself."

"Ideas shape the course of history."

"When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side."

"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal."

"Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it."

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

"The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)"

"Learning the truth has become my life's love."

"The history of art is the history of revivals."

"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor."