Livy

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.