People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
History is full of surprises.
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.