“If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!”

“You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.”

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”

“History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.”

“I'm not sure if you just screwed with history or if history just screwed with you.”

“You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.”