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Quotes by Historian
"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."
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"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."
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"I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."
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"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
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"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."
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"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
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"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
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"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law."
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"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
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"We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned."
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"We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years."
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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
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"We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century."
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"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
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"Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up."
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"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition."
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