"Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

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

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

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

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"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"

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

"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"