American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
If history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten.
Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
And remember where you have a concentration of power in a few hands all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Thanks to television for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.