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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

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Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic.

R.B. Bernstein

Stichwörter: history government jefferson constitution hamilton

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Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

Peter Lamborn Wilson

Stichwörter: truth history sad-reality

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It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Samuel Butler

Stichwörter: history

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The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.

Vladimir Nabokov

Stichwörter: history death fame

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I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Rebecca West

Stichwörter: history yugoslavia

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Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...

Milan Kundera

Stichwörter: history cynicism faith dogma moderation pragmatism philosophicaloutlookonlife machiavellian

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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

Stichwörter: learning school history doomed-to-repeat-it

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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Robert Anton Wilson