backward,” stagnating, and unproductive. We now know that investment in slaves brought a considerable profit and that the Southern economy grew rapidly throughout the pre–Civil War decades. It is true, however, that the system depended...

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

In five hundred years’ time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not exist. There will be plenty of other causes. You and me and poor...

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled...

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content–even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of...

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It’s rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit...

It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

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

Soy una apasionada de los libros escritos por testigos oculares.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

Amerika Serikat tidak bisa memandang rendah seorang pemimpin hanya karena dia orang Asia. Dan apa yang menjadi sebab orang kecil ini tidak mau lagi percaya kepada Amerika? Tidakkah karena rakyatnya merasa dihantam oleh intraversi dan...

Biarkan mereka melaporkan, Sukarno tidak hanya bicara dengan mulut, tapi juga bicara dengan meriam dan sudah siap perang.

Sebenarnya, rakyat Indonesia pada dasarnya bangsa yang lemah, patuh dan pendiam. Tetapi orang Belanda sendiri pernah mengatakan, di dalam jiwa orang Indonesia terdapat semangat seekor harimau. Dan apabila kami diterkam, kami sanggup melakukan tindakan-tindakan besar.

Aku bertanya kepada Saudara-Saudara semua: Siapakah yang dapat membelenggu suatu bangsa jikalau semangat bangsa itu sendiri tidak mau dibelenggu?

Bangsa Indonesia berbeda dengan bangsa lain di dunia. Sosialisme kami adalah sosialisme yang tidak memasukkan konsep materialisme yang ekstrim, karena bangsa Indonesia adalah bangsa yang takut kepada Tuhan dan mencintai Tuhan. Sosialisme kami adalah sosialisme...

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

We have another positive local test on a 30-year-old man. He had a history of contact with sick chickens near his house. He died on April 26.

A miracle occurred, two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their...

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.””Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?””How else? Though not till I’m done reading.

La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.

Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the...

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

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable.”...

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history–while it would not absolutely...

Al-Quran dalam pendapatnya mempunyai sifat supernatural. Kemukjizatannya terletak bukan hanya pada isi dan kebenaran psikologis dan mistisnya, tetapi juga pada cepatnya Islam meluas ke daerah-daerah di luar semenanjung Arabia.

No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.”(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad,...

Charlotte has a great history with NASCAR and a great nexus there with all the teams. We wish them well and look forward to being there at the opening.

History is a vast early warning system.

Oh, glorious Art!” thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. “Thou art the image of the Creator’s own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The...

Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

This is the largest marijuana bust that anyone can remember in recent history. This was just huge … and very, very professional, with state-of-the-art equipment.

Boy, you’re good at figuring things out. Isn’t he? Except that if anybody’s the devil in this room it’s _you_, buster.” An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. “I’ve seen you before. I know you,...

History isn’t about dates and places and wars. It’s about the people who fill the spaces between them.

My fight isn’t so simple, it has very deep roots, from long ago, from earlier generations. Life weighs on me with the weight of my family history, my genes drag along a race of sons...

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity;...

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It’s not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don’t take issue with...

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers...

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

By the Middles Ages it was a sin to have sex with a child. If an adult were guilty of such a sin, one remedy was to declare the child a witch. The child thus...

In the Christian tradition, there is a very decisive problem in distinguishing between the senses of the terms “Jesus” and “Christ.” “Jesus” refers to a historical character; “Christ” refers to an eternal principle, the Son...