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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Happy is the nation without a history.
Happy is the nation without a history.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
History does not always repeat itself.
History does not always repeat itself.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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.
