“If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.”

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

“I would not choose to live in any age but my own; advances in medicine alone, and the consequent survival of children with access to these benefits, should preclude any temptation to trade for the past. But we cannot understand history if we saddle the past with pejorative categories based on our bad habits for dividing continua into compartments of increasing worth towards the present. These errors apply to the vast paleontological history of life, as much as to the temporally trivial chronicle of human beings. I cringe every time I read that this failed business, or that defeated team, has become a dinosaur is succumbing to progress. Dinosaur should be a term of praise, not opprobrium. Dinosaurs reigned for more than 100 million years and died through no fault of their own; Homo sapiens is nowhere near a million years old, and has limited prospects, entirely self-imposed, for extended geological longevity. ”

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”