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

A radiant fellowship of the fallen..

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood..

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again..

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the s….

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all..

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that ….

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't..

Less is more, in prose as in architecture..

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance..

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects..

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish….

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind..

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out..

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate..

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought..

The midwife of history is violence..

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its….

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in….

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a ….

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose..