Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature — Barbara Tuchman
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. — William Least Heat-Moon
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. — Sarah Vowell