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History is a vast early warning system.
History is a vast early warning system.
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.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, read more
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
