The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Pat Riley has lost three of four in the first round. I guess [Rivers has] got to study history a little more.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.