"A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"