“It is important to the peace of the world to understand each other and have full faith in each other's sincerity. That is all we ask; that is all we want[...]”
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“[I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.”
― Memoirs By Harry S Truman Volume Two Years of Trail and Hope
― Memoirs By Harry S Truman Volume Two Years of Trail and Hope
“In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.”
― Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
― Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
“The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.”
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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