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Quotes by Historian
"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
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"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
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"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."
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"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
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"Fill your mind before you empty your mouth."
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"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
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"Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed."
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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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"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."
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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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"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."
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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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"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
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"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
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"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
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"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
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"It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors."
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
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"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."
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"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
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"Wealth brings strength, strength confidence."
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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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"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
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