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At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.
Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .
The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.
Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?