History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out