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Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.
Jared Sparks
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We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
Timothy Tyson
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Macedonia (or Macedon) was an ancient, somewhat backward kingdom in northern Greece. Its emergence as a Hellenic (Greek) power was due to a resourceful king, Philip II (359-336), whose career has been unjustly overshadowed by the deeds of his son, Alexander the Great.
Mortimer Chambers
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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore H. White
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His [the Virginian's] dream was to found an aristocratic republic, in which superior individuals would emerge to rule the many.
Clifford Dowdey
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The mighty edifice of government science dominated the scene in the middle and twentieth century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a thirteenth century landscape. The work of many hands over the years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
A. Hunter Dupree
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It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Jacques Barzun
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Effective coordination of throughput required the placing of vigorous management controls over these despots.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Christopher Lasch
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The American dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.
James Truslow Adams
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Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.
Samuel Eliot Morison
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As a nation we are, however, slowly accepting the fact that the loose-jointed, easy-going, somewhat irresponsible system of administration which we carried over from our rural, agricultural background is no longer adequate for present and future needs.
Leonard D. White
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'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
Albert Bushnell Hart
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Endless discussions of multiculturalism proceed from the unsubstantiated assumption that numerous distinct cultures constitute American society. Only a few historians or observers even consider the possibility that the opposite may be true: that the world and the United States are relentlessly becoming more culturally uniform, not diverse.
Russell Jacoby
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How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?
Kenneth C. Davis
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In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.
Kevin Starr
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The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.
Carlos Eire
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In Philadelphia, Philadelphians feel, the Right Thing is more natural and more firmly bred into [them] than anywhere else.
Stephen Birmingham
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
Charles P. Kindleberger
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His mind had one compartment for right and one for wrong, but no middle chamber where the two could commingle.
Howard K. Beale
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It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.
Howard Zinn
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We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
Richard Hofstadter
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This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago.
Alfred Barr
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People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.
Anne Hollander
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The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
George R. Stewart
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