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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.