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Quotes by Historian
"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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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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"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
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"On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act."
17
"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
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"We seek the truth and will endure the consequences."
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"The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way."
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"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
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"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,
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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
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"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago."
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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."
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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
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"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all."
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"The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that."
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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."
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"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
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"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
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