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If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosin...more

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History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of...more

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Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

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I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what t...more

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My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not comm...more

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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way ...more

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The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from th...more

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You can't be neutral on a moving train.

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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But k...more