"The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved."
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"Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes."
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"The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves."
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"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
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"All history was at first oral."
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"If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written."
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"This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery."
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"History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
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"Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians"
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"Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one."
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"Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
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"In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense."
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"Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can."
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"I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender."
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"Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made."
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"Well, everybody has a history."
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"History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious."
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"It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth."
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"... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings."
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"Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other."
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