Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

yesterday is history that is why it is called the past tomorrow has yet to come that is why it is called the future today is a gift that is why it is called the present live today to think about tomorrow and cherish the past.