If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
History is the study of the world's crime
The historian amputates reality.
Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.
But I regret not having liked history.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.
I find I like it too much.
In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation. . . , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
These days, the media is defining what cultural capital is, and it's easily learned. If you have money, anything can be bought. We see this in China and Russia with what I call the "Bling Dynasty and New Oligarchy" in Generation Wealth. As people got rich and everybody started buying Louis Vuitton bags, it became clear that to distinguish yourself you had to have more than an expensive bag. People began to want the things that money is not supposed to be able to buy - history, tradition, education, and culture.
Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.
