"If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."
― James Buchan
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― James Buchan
More From James Buchan
- "Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing."
- "Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting."
- "One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity."
More In History
- "The Australian Government’s decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future."― Kevin Rudd
- "I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century."― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- "90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world."― Colin Powell