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“The student is to read history actively not passively.”
“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and subject that group to certain conditions. They compar...”
“Patterns repeat themselves in history”
“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarrin...”
“But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.”
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
“You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.”
“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more tha...”
“...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touch...”
“Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man cant ride you unless your back is ...”
“Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.”
“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”
“The history of our race, and each individuals experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”
“History is a vast early warning system.”
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is...”
“Fools who don't respect the past are doomed to repeat it.”
“And I thought:History is like a horror story.”
“The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one spe...”
