"History is the invention of historians."
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"I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it."
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"We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it."
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"A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards."
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"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all."
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"The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes."
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"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities."
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"World history is a court of judgment."
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"Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God."
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"Kings are the slaves of history."
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"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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"One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life."
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"This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms."
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"Why change the world? Change worlds!"
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"History casts its shadow far into the land of song."
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"They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again."
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"History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
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"I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored."
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