Author Info:
Quote:In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Author Info:US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
Quote:Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Author Info:Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC – 347 BC)
Quote:Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Author Info:French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
Quote:The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
