“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”– Margaret Thatcher Related Quotes “Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”– Mahatma Gandhi “Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”– Arthur Schopenhauer “From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.”– Umberto Eco