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.
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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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
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Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
