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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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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Running Quotes , Historical Quotes

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

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Historical Quotes , Facts Quotes

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

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

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The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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You accept the historical Jesus?

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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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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Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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