Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.
Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.