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Quotes by Historian
"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
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"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."
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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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"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words."
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"Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism."
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"Righteousness is easy in retrospect."
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"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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"The missiles come first, and the justifications come second."
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"Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many."
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"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
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"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results."
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"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction."
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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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"I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig."
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"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."
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"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."
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"There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind."
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"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."
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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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"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
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"There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option."
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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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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West."
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