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“But for those who live through it, history is neither ‘early’ nor ‘late’. ‘Forerunners’ are also the inheritors of another past. Men must be judged in their own context;”
― The Making of the English Working Class
― The Making of the English Working Class
“For there can be no salvation where there is not some sacrifice, and no national liberty in the fullest sense unless we have ourselves worked to bring it about.”
― Strange Defeat
― Strange Defeat
“I do not say that the past entirely governs the present, but I do maintain that we shall never satisfactorily understand the present unless we take the past into account.”
― Strange Defeat
― Strange Defeat
“It is one of the privileges of the true man of action that, when the critical moment comes, blemishes of character are effaced, while virtues, till then potential merely, are seen in an unexpectedly vivid light.”
― Strange Defeat
― Strange Defeat
“[T]he American fanatic has always suffered moral disorientation at the mere thought of anyone 'getting something for nothing'.”
― Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
― Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
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