History Is The Arbiter Of Controversy, The

Ink Was Not Invented To Express Our Real Feelings.

No Public Character Has Ever Stood The Revelation Of Private Utterance And Correspondence.

The Reward Of History Is That It Releases And Relieves Us From Present Strife.

When The Last Of The Reformers Died, Religion, Instead Of Emancipating The Nations, Had Become An Excuse For The Criminal Art Of Despots. Calvin Preached, And Bellarmine Lectured; But Machiavelli Reigned.

History Is The Arbiter Of Controversy, The Monarch Of All She Surveys.