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May 20, 2013 War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau

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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.

American Indian Prove

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures ...

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the ...

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