If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. – Ron Fournier Category: History
Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone Category: History
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman Category: History
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft Category: Failure