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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.
I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.
I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.