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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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I invented the historical spy novel.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

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