​​Gordon L. Heath

​​“Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness.” 
Philip Melanchthon
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
William Faulkner
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
​G.K. Chesterton
“After the delusions of political correctness, ideological rage, multiculturalism, postmodernism, historical relativism, and the more extreme forms of academic cynicism, historians are returning to the foundations of their discipline with a new faith in the possibilities of historical knowledge, and with new results. This inquiry is conceived in the that spirit. It begins not with a thesis, or a theory, or an ideology, but with a set of open questions about Champlain. It asks, who was this man? Where did he come from? What did he do? Why did he do it? What difference did he make? Why should we care? The answers to these questions make a story.” David Hackett Fischer, Champlain’s Dream (New York/London/Toronto/Sydney: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 11.
“To know the limbs and leaps of history is hardly worth a cent...The only thing which counts is that you become more certain of your God as you contemplate the past, and that you show more courage in the face of present needs!”  Ulrich Zwingli