History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are..

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think wi….

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, ….

We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken a….

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in th….

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They mean….

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we ca….

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia..

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you..

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage ….

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes..

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of….

You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our p….

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present..

History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is abou….

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may ….

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach….

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different..

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some….

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books..

Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of….