The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot Category: History
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower Category: History
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman Category: History
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. – Michel de Montaigne, translated Category: History
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. – Theodor Adorno Category: Freedom