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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

The Thames is liquid history.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.