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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.