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All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.
Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.
We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.
One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.