People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. – Johann von Goethe
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape – into time. – A.L. Rowse, The Use of History