“Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.”
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“Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.”
Source: Voltaire's Alphabet of wit
“Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.”
“History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”
“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”
Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair
“All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon”
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”
Source: A Matter of Time
“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.”
“A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Source: Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
Source: History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent
“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
Source: The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history
“More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.”
“All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.”
“Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.”
Source: On Fiji Islands
Source: Education and Ecstasy: With,
Source: Civilization
Source: The Works...
Source: State of the Union Addresses
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
“History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant”
“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road