"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

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

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

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

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"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"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"