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History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and read more
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
History does not always repeat itself.
History does not always repeat itself.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
