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Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
A real friend ... exults in his friendÂ’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.
For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
If you read about millions of people doing this and millions of people doing that, history seems remote and inaccessible.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.
The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.