
“I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp”
“I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp”
“History is written for the purpose of narration and not in order to give proof.”
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Book X, Chapter I, 31
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109)”
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”
"The Idolatry of Politics", U.S. Jefferson Lecture speech (1986)
Source: Art on the Edge, (1975), pp. 64-65, "Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton: Dogma and Talent"
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter One, A General View, p. 4
[ART. I—Edward Gibbon, National Review, 2, January 1856, 1–42, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081643169;view=1up;seq=40] (quote p. 28)
Edward Gibbon (1856)