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Donald Kagan

"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."

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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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Donald Kagan
"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."

History

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Donald Kagan
"All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire."

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Donald Kagan
"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."

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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"

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Donald Kagan
"From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me."

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Donald Kagan
"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."

Politics

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Donald Kagan
"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live."

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