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“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.”

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Author:Andrew Roberts

“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”

People Truth Past Wish Accepting History Fantasy Elements Guides Spheres Nevertheless Representation Confusing

Author:Johan Huizinga

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.”

Inspirational Lost Wish History Objects Luck Seeking Novelists Wish You Whispering Best Of Luck Wish You The Best I Wish You The Best

Author:Clive Cussler

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

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Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”

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Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.”

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Author:John Keegan

“Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.”

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Book:The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

Source: The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?”

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Author:Robert E. Lee