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People think too historically; They are always living half in a cemetery
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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.- Aristotle
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
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Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters.
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Professor Johnston often said that if you didn”t know history, you didn”t know anything. You were a leaf that didn”t know it was part of a tree.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.- Albert Camus
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Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
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Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.- Benjamin Disraeli
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Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
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Say, what do I care about Napoleon? What do we care what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want traditoin. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today. That’s the trouble with the world. We’re living in books and history and tradition. We want to get away from that and take care of today. We’ve done too much looking back. What we want to do and do it quick is to make just history right now.
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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