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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.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in read more
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention read more
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons read more
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands read more
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
