American Squirm

SIMON SCHAMA

Indifference about the distinction between truth and lies is the precondition of fascism. When truth perishes so does freedom.

-SS

HEY RUDY GIULIANI! DID YOU FAIL HISTORY CLASS, OR WHAT?

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that "anything's legal" in war.

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HEY PHILDELPHIA EAGLES COACH DOUG PEDERSON! KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY?

The past is the past. History is history. That’s why they call it history.

-DP

BARBARA TUCHMAN

 

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

 

-BT

 

 

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

-BT 

JACQUES BARZUN

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

-JB

DANIEL LEVINSON WILK

The lack of interest scholars have shown in the cultural life of elevators is appalling.

-DLW

BARBARA TUCHMAN

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

-BT

 

 

EDWARD GIBBON

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

-EG

ROBERT CARO

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

-RC

GARRY WILLS

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

-GW

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

The West is now closed.

-FJT

LEWIS MUMFORD

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

-LM

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