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History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are
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“Everywhere distrust”
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
“While democratic theorists failed to measure the full dimensions and the dynamic quality of human vitalities”
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
“small share of the world’s pleasures. I had suffered and I was owed.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven.” ”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
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