"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."
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"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
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"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here."
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"History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background."
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"It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right."
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"Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing."
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"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars."
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"Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept."
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life."
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"I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit."
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"Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental."
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"History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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""The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong."
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"History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea."
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"History is more or less bunk."
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"A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood."
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"Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards."
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"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."
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