For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“You were so intent on what your purpose would be. I remember it nearly word for word." "Recite it for me then,… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible carefully, critically in the light of its historical circumstances, recognizing its humanity while hearing God speak through it, we… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
