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History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to read more
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me read more
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
