The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Winning without problem is just victory, but winning with lots of trouble create history.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.