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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It read more
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
