History … is, indeed, little

“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”     Jean Genet

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.”     Edward Gibbon

“Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.”     Mark Beltaire

“Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.”     Mark Beltaire

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”      Nadia Boulanger