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Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.
With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.