Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times…

— James Madison

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

— Ben Jonson

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”

— Noel Hynd

“To my countrymen who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to…

— Nani Palkhiwala

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others,…

— Thomas Paine

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance.”

— Roger Scruton

“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a…

— Ben Carson