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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
