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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]
About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.