"Writing is a way to make sense of our place in the universe."
History is not just about what happened, but about what is remembered and how.
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.
The difference between animals and humans is that humans are capable of reasoning, but even that is unreliable.