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Quotes by Historian
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
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"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances."
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"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
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"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."
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"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
Fool,
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England."
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"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat."
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"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
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"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
Man,
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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me."
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"No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty."
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"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
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"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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