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Quotes by Historian
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
75
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
71
"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
Past,
71
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
67
"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
66
"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
66
"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
66
"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment."
65
"Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off."
65
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
64
"American corporations hate to give away money."
64
"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
63
"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction."
63
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
62
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
62
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
62
"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."
61
"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
60
"It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that."
60
"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
59
"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."
59
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
59
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
58
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
58
"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
58
"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
57
"It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly."
56
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