English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.