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«America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.»
«All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burden of life from their own shoulders upon those of ot»
«All history is incomprehensible without Christ»
«All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.»
«All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Art,
History,
Passion
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history of art, ineffectual, novels
«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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History,
Violence
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«All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall»
«All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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Betrayal,
Experience,
History,
Wisdom
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betrayed, relies
«Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it»
«All history is modern history»
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