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The past is a kind of screen upon which we project our vision of the future.

Carl L. Becker
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Carl L. Becker
The Declaration was essentially an attempt to prove that rebellion was not the proper word for what they were doing.

Carl L. Becker
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

Carl L. Becker
We look about in vain for any semblance of the old authority, the old absolute, for any suitable foothold from which to get a running start.

Carl L. Becker
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

Carl L. Becker
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

Carl L. Becker
Economic distress will teach men, if anything can, that realities are less dangerous than fancies, that fact-finding is more effective than fault-finding.

Carl L. Becker
It is one of the engaging ironies of modern thought that the scientific method, which it was once fondly hoped would banish mystery from the world, leaves it every day more inexplicable.

Carl L. Becker