Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the...

They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel torments and utter lack of what is needed most to life we spent in...

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are...

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the...

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed {thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways} at the moment when they were first used as...

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle {achievable only through government}.

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party? I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces. In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, such questions can turn me to ashes.

the Reagan years produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history... .The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent... while the income of those...

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We...

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst...

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Edward Johnston

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

The present is the key to the past.

The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years.

It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image. (The mason Mutsose, in Achet - Aten)

History tells Us It's Possible.

My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected...

Cops and Robbers in 1965 England was still a kind of Ealing comedy: crimes rarely involved firearms. The denizens of F - wing were losers in a game they had been playing against the cops. In queues...

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

In the aftermath, we are because they were.

By the late fifth century, the identities of those excluded from full personhood - women, slaves, barbarians - are being increasingly understood in terms of the difficulty or impossibility of...

A lot of what we know to be history isn't…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public...

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and...