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Quotes by Historian
"My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house."
39
"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
39
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
39
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
39
"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
39
"Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality."
39
"This is what our love is""a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds."
39
"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
39
"Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so."
39
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
39
"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition."
39
"Human improvement is from within outward."
39
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
39
"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
39
"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."
39
"One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them."
39
"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
39
"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."
38
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
38
"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."
38
"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."
38
"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
38
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
38
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