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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

To many fame comes too late.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.