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To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It read more
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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.
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which read more
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
The dignity of history.
The dignity of history.
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers read more
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.