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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin. Francesco Guicciardini
Work You Yourself Fear Power Few Ruin Hoped Parties Always Condemn Perpetual Discover Did Revolutions May Often Regain Gain Succeed Your Defeated
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions. Francesco Guicciardini
Men Fools Others Our Run Conspiracies Folk Risk Excessive Knave Since Most Perilous Fellowship Without Making Cannot Either Engaged Reason Companions
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. G. M. Trevelyan
Thought Responsibility Action Readiness Springs
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. G. M. Trevelyan
God Waiting Impossible Young Enough Tell Someone Never Been Very Person Done May Anything Cannot Young Person Centuries Ignorant Thing
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. Goldwin Smith
Art You High Must Something Express Expression
On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The day after the bombing, Kissinger appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to voice his 'total support.' Attacking Libya, he said, was 'correct' and 'necessary.' Greg Grandin
Good Day News Morning Law Correct April Good Morning Libya ABC Administration Total Kissinger Voice Attacking He Clear Support Said Reagan His America Did After Justify International Shows Appeared International Law Rounds Bombing Necessary Violation
Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege. Greg Grandin
Best History Oppression Long Past Few White Jim Jim Crow Months Backlash Insightful Ongoing Crow Long History Over Within Answers Loss Question Trump Commentary Privilege America Donald Donald Trump Apartheid Interesting Racial Fascist Slavery
The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency. Greg Grandin
CIA Book People World Year Added Presidency Says About Colombia Fact Since New Been Clinton Up Staggering Plan Bill Bill Clinton Displaced Each Each Year Million Million People
Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter. H. W. Brands
You Become Too President Once Bad Take Red Lights Like Looks Traffic Just Stop Helicopter Even
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Hannah Arendt
Life Death Flux Completeness All Things Silent Hazardous Merely Also Subject Snatched Human Ends Which Things
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Hannah Arendt
Before Learn Doing Them Things
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt
Day Political Defiance Secular World-Wide One Day Religious Outstanding Well Decade Authority May Established Social Event Last Last Decade Phenomenon
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. Hannah Arendt
Love Mistake Love Is Experience People Only Poets Indispensable Crucial Which Them Whom Universal
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry Adams
Politics Too Only Purpose He Cheers Certain Who Stands Serve
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. Henry Adams
Man Strong Else Ten Ten Years Remain Priest Schoolmaster However Years Fit Senator Anything Anything Else Serve
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Henry Adams
Politics Game Very
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. Henry Adams
Alone Progress President Evidence Evolution Darwin Upset Grant Washington
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams
Man Woman Only Through Wrong Known Who
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. Henry Adams
Politics Man Honestly Unless Would Rather He Should
It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself. Herodotus
Good Together Good Things Impossible Country Single Able Someone Provide Itself Human Just Who Things
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. Herodotus
Good Intelligence Obey Giving Advice Same Thing Think Someone Well Same Good Advice Thing Consent
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. Herodotus
Man Become Relaxation Bit Mad Would Insisted Never Allowed He Unstable Knowing Himself Without Always Go Being Fun Serious
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. Herodotus
God Man Impossible Whatever Back Turn
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. Herodotus
War Peace Evil Strife Worse Civil Greater Greater Evil Itself Than Effort War Effort Much
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. Herodotus
Unhappy Men Rich Circumstances Exceedingly Fortunate Many
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. Howard Zinn
Nation Humane Too Civilized Uncivilized Been American Often Taught Inhumane Actions
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