“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”– H. L. Mencken Related Quotes “Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”– Barbara Ehrenreich “History is more or less bunk.”– Henry Ford “The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”– Colin Powell