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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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History is the invention of historians.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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