Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.Will Durant
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Does history support a belief in God If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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