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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand read more
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
