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But the truth is, I write mostly In the mornings, drinking tea, And, when I write, I am writing Mostly just for me.
“If the politicians of our time fail to meet the challenges of our time, we have only ourselves to blame. If we don’t vote, if we are unwilling to pay taxes, or even to take part in the census, then what good are we as citizens?”
― History Matters
― History Matters
“History shows us how to behave. History teaches, reinforces what we believe in, what we stand for, and what we ought to be willing to stand up for. History is—or should be—the bedrock of patriotism, not the chest-pounding kind of patriotism but the real thing, love of country.”
― History Matters
― History Matters
“To be indifferent to history isn’t just to be ignorant, it’s often to be rude, to show a form of ingratitude.”
― History Matters
― History Matters
“There’s no secret to making history come alive. Barbara Tuchman said it perfectly: “Tell stories.” The pull, the appeal, is irresistible, because history is about two of the greatest of all mysteries—time and human nature.”
― History Matters
― History Matters
“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free,” Jefferson said, “expects what never was and never will be.” And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it has in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”
― History Matters
― History Matters
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