As a historian what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
If there is not the war you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
When you play play hard when you work don't play at all.
I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average...
Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a...
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but,...
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a...
