“Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.”
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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
“Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.”
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.”
“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Source: No Greater Love
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard
Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“World War II was the last government program that really worked.”