Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

-A man do everything for love, in love but he cant get love according to his desire, there is also involve the desire of someone else-

You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.