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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after read more
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair read more
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: read more
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
