"Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes."
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"If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand."
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"History proves nothing because it contains everything."
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"It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons."
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"Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)"
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"He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings."
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"Everything may happen."
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"History does not unfold: it piles up."
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"A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle."
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"The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies."
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"The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time."
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"Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication."
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"The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society."
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"The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction."
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"As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further."
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"The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction."
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"In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side."
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"A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture."
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"The history of the world is the history of the privileged few."
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"Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying."
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