I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach |
If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen. |
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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice |
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom |
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Glenn Close (1947-) |
Glenn Close (1947-) |
It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants |
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