"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

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

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

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

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"History takes time. History makes memory"

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"