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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

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A turning point in modern history.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

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Happy people have no history.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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

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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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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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