"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

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

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

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"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"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

"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"

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do"