Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
History Quotes
Studying history warns against making it.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer’s booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
All history is modern history.
History is politics projected into the past.
