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"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
History
"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress."
Congress
"So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington."
Time
"The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized."
America
"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."
Business
"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."
Business
"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
Father
"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
Drama
"Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions."
American
"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."
America
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