"History repeats itself."
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"Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options."
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"Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion."
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"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development"
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"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."
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"I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial."
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"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
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"My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly."
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"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
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"Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time."
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"As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances."
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"We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands."
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"Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."
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"Libraries are not made, they grow."
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"Historians are gossips who tease the dead"
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"Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically"
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"I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs."
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