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I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.
I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.
Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.