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Quotes by Historian
"Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down."
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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
3
"Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have."
3
"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."
3
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
3
"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
3
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
3
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
3
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
Life,
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"The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific."
Old,
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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
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"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
3
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
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"Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith."
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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
2
"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
2
"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable."
2
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
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"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
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"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
2
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
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"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."
2
"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."
2
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
2
"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
2
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
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