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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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