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History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!
The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.
I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.
Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?
Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.