Es el hombre vivo lo que hay que buscar bajo el polvo de los archivos y en el silencio de los museos.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

You have thousands of friends and all of them will be part of your history but not with your destiny.

History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.

Rusia baik kepadaku. Aku berbuat bodoh bila aku berpaling dari Rusia, karena ia memberi begitu banyak.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Dalam hal terentu kecintaan rakyat ini menimbulkan kesulitan, sama halnya dengan kebencian dari musuh.

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Kesalahannya hanyalah karena ia terlalu mencintai. Ia mencintai negerinya dan ia mencintai pemimpinnya.