710 Quotes About Historical

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

A global economy requires a global currency.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.