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[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].
Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course.
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.
Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.