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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw quotes
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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.- Lord Acton
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
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If you write a post and put it on a blog, that”s a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It”s the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can”t know what they will want.
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian — ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men’s forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.- Alex Haley
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In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life; Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole
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