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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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
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The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
