I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be tr...
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can...
[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed from power one of history's most ruthless and belligerent tyrants. A man who cold-bloodedly murdered thousands of his own people. Who built palaces f...
On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns I heard the cry of mourners the long cooing of the African wren at dusk the laughter of the children at dawn had long ceased night com...
Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into shape or crumble away like sediment carried by the ...
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
Human history is a Gaian dream.
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
History is history. What is done is done.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
History was once the future, the future will create history.
History books are being re-written all the time
Don't ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.
Flames burn so long as they are fed. Rivers rage so long as it rains. The sun rises so long as the earth rotates. Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered sincerely. Hope exists so long as there is a new day. Miracles never cease so long as t...
