The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning fait…

For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of erro…

A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.

Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was going the wa…

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.