Adam Weishaupt Quotes, Reading Quotes, Historical Quotes

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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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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

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

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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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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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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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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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You accept the historical Jesus?

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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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There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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

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As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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