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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.
The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.
From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
If we truly want to be tools in the hands of our Heavenly Father in bringing to pass His eternal purposes, we need only to be a friend.
The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.