There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn’t.
Category Archive: Quotes by Historians
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all.
The Romans weren’t trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
I don’t see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.