Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

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