The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history people would gather around whether by the fire or at a tavern and tell stories. One person would chime in then another maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

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

After all when the world looks to America they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high idealistic motives and idealism in our time has been shoved aside and we are paying the penalty for it.