Quotes by Historians

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. John Keegan

Military Virtues Admire Pacifist Should Even

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. John Keegan

World Black Become Think Extremely Tribes Maelstrom About Outside Outside World Feel Terrifying Without Africa Anything Warring Need Needing

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts. John Lewis Gaddis

Thoughts White White House Way Open House Terms Second

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Lewis Gaddis

Strategy Presidency Franklin He Over Since Most Redesign George George W George W. Bush Grand Bush Roosevelt Much Sweeping Evaluate

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. John Lothrop Motley

Great Made Crusades Condition Improvement

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman. John Lothrop Motley

Woman Animal Indeed Unbridled Terrible

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. John Lothrop Motley

Outward Longer Still Nations Form Rome Century Full Now Career

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. John Lothrop Motley

History Paper Feeble How Barriers Shows

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. John Lothrop Motley

People Priesthood Says Caesar Nobility Were Orders While Slaves Two

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. John Lothrop Motley

Old Later Faded Tenth Roman Forms Century Away

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude. John Lothrop Motley

Weak Scared Ferocious Timid Persons Many Servitude

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies. John Lothrop Motley

Band Soldiers Gigantic Roman

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. John Lothrop Motley

History Netherlands Becomes The History Of Therefore

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome. John Lothrop Motley

Time First Fall Once Netherlands Crown Imperial Had Thus Since First Time Were Been Rome Again United Slavery

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. John Lukacs

Superpower Make Chinese Billion Even

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. John Thorn

Game Seventies Woe Dying Lamentation Much

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. John Thorn

Work Own Pay Define Claim Only Trophies Opposed Ultimately Them Resembles Award Activity Letting Play Players

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. John Thorn

History Culture Experience Speak Better Will Building Field Group Else Fathers Our Shared Sons Come Within Enables Years Up Than Personal May Anything Anything Else While Level Level Playing Field Playing Playing Field

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. John Thorn

Dreams World Competition Prosperity Heroes National Birth Gave Back Reclaim Booming Spirited Both New Major Leagues Major Leagues Within Around Pastime Expansion Decade National Pastime Place Next Baseball

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. John Thorn

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. John Thorn

Family Care Our Our Lives About Something Gives Talk Sport Alternative Continuity Provided Left Behind Us Many Lives

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. John Thorn

Myself Game Events Made Worrisome Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Clear Century Chain