“Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the...” — Noah Feldman Quote

“Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.”

“Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.”

“It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.”

“To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.”

“The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.”

“The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.”

“Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.”

“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”

“More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”