I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. – Friedrich August von Hayek

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. – Thomas Babington Macaulay