There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.