Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out….

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom..

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history..

It is magnificent, but it is not war..

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history..

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull..

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of anoth….

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed..

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might c….

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare..

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of ….

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members..

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences am….

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die..

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically..

In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you w….

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, inf….

I counted them all out and I counted them all back..

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison..

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, ta….