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Quotes by Historian
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
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"The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time."
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"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all."
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"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!"
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"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""
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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
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"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
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"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
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"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
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"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
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"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
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"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
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"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
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"The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all."
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"Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation."
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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
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