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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

War is an option of difficulties.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

We are all citizens of history.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

We might have been a free and great people together.