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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Barbara Tuchman

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Governments do not like to face radical remedies it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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