Category Archives: history

“The kind of fraud which consists in daring to proclaim the truth while mixing it with a large share of lies that falsify it, is more widespread than is generally thought.”—Marcel Proust

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all.”—Martin Gardner, mathematician … Continue reading →

“Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.”—Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one’ … [The man who first said that] was probably a coward …. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths … Continue reading →

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The humblest servant of the Government should not be at the mercy or the caprice of the most distinguished politician. Let every man who may receive a commission from the United States know that he holds it from the people, in … Continue reading →