If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”