Quotes by Historians

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Johan Huizinga
Great History Will Predict Nothing Changes Relationships About Except Never Come Been Anticipated Human Form Which Human Relationships
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Johan Huizinga
Funny You Sunday Humiliating Innocence More Do You Know Know Than America Anything Newspaper Pages
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. John Dalberg-Acton
Government Democracy People Fate Power Every Other Absolute Absolute Power Between Principles Makes Tradition Opposite Hand Legality Authority Sovereignty Depends Choices Based
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. John Dalberg-Acton
Nature World Nothing Wild Force Greek Moves Origin Save
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. John Dalberg-Acton
Smile Soul Eye Fond Alms Another Does Beg Handshake Either Who
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. John Dalberg-Acton
Beautiful Business Money Think About Driven Never Beautiful Things Make Artist Businessman Things
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. John Dalberg-Acton
Ignorance Simple Will Shaken Only Bear Attacked Development Qualities Contrary Discussion Front Cannot Which Things Two
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. John Dalberg-Acton
Justice Nothing Every Secret Administration Bear Safe Does How Discussion Show Even Publicity Thing
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. John Dalberg-Acton
Together Liberty Safety Guardian Will Free Free Will Duty Both Sin Condition Domains Being Ends Even Grow Conscience Grows
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. John Dalberg-Acton
Freedom Liberty Power Ought Like Doing Right
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. John Dalberg-Acton
Success Time World Past Action Shake Struggled Dead Verdict Reverse Off Shocks Nations Succession Rescue Series Reign Violent
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. John Dalberg-Acton
Freedom Liberty Political Higher Highest End Itself Means
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. John Dalberg-Acton
Man Superior Country Before Duty Every Other State Spirit Both His Deny Authority Same Any Who Shows Right
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. John Dalberg-Acton
Best Book Others Favourites Seek Content
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. John Dalberg-Acton
People Will Down Later Sooner Sooner Or Later Issue Versus Banks Which Centuries Swept Fought
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. John Edward Christopher Hill
Freedom Men Late Unless Slowly Only Come Very Privilege Realize Extended Universal
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old. John Edward Christopher Hill
Old Young Sense Varies Common Common Sense Among
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. John Edward Christopher Hill
War Angry Man World Young He Wrote Very Going Young Man Believing World War
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. John Hope Franklin
Life Truth Learning World Better Better World Country Goodness Lesson Monopoly Indispensable Scholarship Perhaps Also Learn Greatest Making Western Western World Begin Ingredients Appreciate
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. John Keegan
Time Will Made Men Mask Leader Mark Must Followers Only Through He Make Him Himself His Want Form Place Warfare Show Need
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they? John Keegan
You People Well Trying Whole
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. John Keegan
Somewhere Glorious Think Other Valley Altogether Mountain Than Crashing Shot Less Skyscraper
Some people are more terrorist than others. John Keegan
People Some People Others Some More Terrorist Than
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. John Keegan
Education You People Regret World Other Way Writer Never Had Look Said Were Been Childhood Upset Commonly Really Means Help Ill Inclined
Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did. John Keegan
Nobody Years Did Anywhere Should Teach
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. John Keegan
You Quality Will Trouble Politician Politicians Diplomat Diplomats Compromise Uncompromising He Most Terrible Get Necessary
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