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We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.
The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.