We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you dont have to waste your time voting. – Charles Bukowski
To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. – Charles Bukowski
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham