“Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.”

“History is always written to serve the powerful.”

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.”

“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”

“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

“Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.”