"In a certain sense all men are historians."
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"Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe."
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"Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History."
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"History after all is the true poetry."
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"History is the new poetry."
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"History is the distillation of rumour."
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"History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future."
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"There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants."
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"We might have been a free and great people together."
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"It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir."
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"it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority."
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"One age is like another for the soul."
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"A turning point in modern history."
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"Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions."
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"Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights."
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"But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible."
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"The obscurest epoch is to-day."
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"History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities."
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"The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them."
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"If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way."
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