The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

Just like in the 18th century when the French distinguished the Arab, Persian, and Indic attributes, in the Middle Ages these were associated with concepts of exuberant, refined, distinguished,...

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

a top hat - a deliberate act of rebellion on Ike's part that shocked the protocol mavens. For their part, the Eisenhowers had refused to enter the White House for a pre-inauguration cup of coffee,...

So far as the facts in the case are concerned, Dr Howell and I had called our book a 'true' history.

A bullet hole in my bedroom door was a grim reminder of December 7, 1941, and of an entire nation which had not been sufficiently awake…

LAW: Long - term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold {or silver} supply without government interference.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

For long centuries monasteries had been virtually the only institutions that cared about books. Even in the stable and prosperous times of the Roman Empire, literacy rates, by our standards at least,...

The wars of the twentieth century brought home the fundamental truth that people will fight for their country and unite in its defence, but will seldom fight for their class, even when the...

He wanted to be a universal man … and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

I cannot tell where you should look for me because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.

It was a skill useful to lawyers, and no man in all English history was more the lawyer than Coke. He personified a profession considered both so influential and so dubious that in 1372 the House of...

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in the mainstream media suggests that popular resistance is ridiculous,...

I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation. The Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much about heritage as it was about vikings, in the most...

Iran's previous attempts at democracy were thwarted by foreigners - the British and Russians in 1905–1911; the United States in 1953 - whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic...

Inspired by these meetings, Franklin created a scheme in which the Junto members would contribute funds toward buying books that all members could use. This model soon grew beyond Franklin's Friday...

All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament.

Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.

The middle classes, grown prosperous by the belated but staggering development of the industrial revolution and dazzled by the success of Bismarck's policy of force and war, had traded for material...

Now it was called The Texaco Star Theater; the Mighty Allen Art Players became the Texaco Workshop Players, and the show opened in the traditional Texaco manner, with a siren and a bell. The opening...

Europe knows what a war is. It ripped itself to shreds twice within my grandparents' lifetime. Consider France's losses in World War I. France {with one - quarter as many people as we have} lost as...

The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith - - still the religion's focal personage - - married at least...

the taste for Victorian-era sci-fi futures is more than anything else a nostalgia for the last moment, before the carnage of World War I, when everyone could safely feel a redemptive future was...

The full story, however, is told in Steve Inskeep's recent book Jacksonland, which I will rely on for my subsequent account. "Jackson managed national security affairs in a way that matched his...

Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.

If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right.