“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.”
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“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”
“Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.”
“History is a vast early warning system.”
“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
“We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.”
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”
“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”
“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
“It's a very good historical book about history.”
“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.”
“When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.”
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”