It’s history in the making, but we still have one more game.

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation...

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

In the end the war was Hitler’s war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him…He was...

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...

troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don’t want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They...

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

The successes we have enjoyed have not been down to three people. It is also true that each history has an end.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

A menudo se usa la historia como una serie de cuentos morales para aumentar la solidaridad de grupo o, cosa más defendible, según mi punto de vista, para explicar el desarrollo de instituciones importantes como...

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I think war is a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother’s mother. Your father’s mother’s mother’s mother. I hardly knew her. I didn’t have any interest in knowing...

The Told shone brightly. They truly stood out among the Inhabitants for their life and love, and the power to rebrand words went with them. They employed every type of literary term to form new...

…Baltimore. It’s imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It’s not all marble steps and waitresses calling you ‘hon,’ you know. Racial strife in the sixties,...

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still,...

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

However, we will not repeat the past bitter history of turbulence and instability in the world resulted from the rise of a big power, but seek a road that a new rising nation has never...

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I’ve seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000...

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Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews’ mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society...

L’histoire est le produit le plus dangereux que la chimie de l’intellect ait élaboré. Ses propriétés sont bien connues. Il fait rêver, il enivre les peuples, leur engendre de faux souvenirs, exagère leurs réflexes, entretient...

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

I am pro-plaque.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

A BLACK MARK ON U.S. HISTORY

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we’re told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we’re...

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it’s theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or,...

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status

Guardo Edith, ormai avanti negli anni: dopo avermi cercato con gli occhi e trovato ai margini di quel giardino solatio, intento a scrivere sul mio solito quaderno rilegato di pelle lista e scolorita, mi scruta...

Poligami seperti dijalankan pada bangsa-bangsa Timur adalah suatu kebajikan bagi kaum perempuan dan gadis-gadis yang di dalam negerinya tidak dapat hidup tanpa suami atau pelindung – Max Muller

to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant’s monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

Wir alle, ob schuldig oder nicht, ob alt oder jung, müssen die Vergangenheit annehmen. Wir alle sind von ihren Folgen betroffen und für sie in Haftung genommen. […] Es geht nicht darum, Vergangenheit zu bewältigen....

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Vince has hit some of the craziest shots in the history of this league. But the importance of that shot is what I am most proud of for him.

In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not — repeat did not — trade weapons or anything else for hostages nor will we.