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Quotes by Historian
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
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"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."
Work,
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"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
2
"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
2
"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
Will,
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"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
2
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
2
"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
2
"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
2
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
2
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
2
"The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system."
2
"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
2
"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
2
"A huge change has taken place in my lifetime."
2
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
2
"Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality."
2
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
2
"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
2
"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."
2
"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
2
"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
2
"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption."
Now,
2
"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."
2
"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
2
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
2
"The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way."
2
"When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development."
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