We cannot escape history.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
It's a very good historical book about history.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
The past does not influence me; I influence it.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
Men make their own history
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
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