"One hundred years ago Lord Macauley said, 'Rome was over run and conquered by the Barbarians in the fifth century A.D.' In the middle of the 20th century America will be over run and destroyed but with this difference. Ancient Rome's Barbarians came from without-Americas Barbarians will have been created by her own Democratic institutions and will come from within."
---------President Ronald Reagan
"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days "
---------Winston S. Churchil
"Our kind of weariness. History hit us like a freight train. History has been doing this to people, monotously and usually lethally."
--------Whittaker Chambers