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Historian Of The Modern Age Inspirational Quotes (513)

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest the first are blindly adopted the second wilfully preferred.
George Bancroft
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The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.
Howard Zinn
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There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
Howard Zinn
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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
Henry Adams
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Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.
Howard Zinn
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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
Henry Adams
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The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
Howard Zinn
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
C. V. Wedgwood
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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
Henry Adams
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If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
George Bancroft
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.
David Herbert Donald
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A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
A. J. P. Taylor
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No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
Henry Adams
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The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
Henry Steele Commager
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All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.
Henry Adams
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There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
John Lukacs
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Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
Alan Bullock
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
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[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.
Howard Zinn
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
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Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.
Howard Zinn
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The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.
Henry Adams
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