All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example

Quote by George Croly

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite...

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

History is a relay of revolutions.

History is a relay of revolutions.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or...

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or...

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of...

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of...

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I...

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I...

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get...

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get...

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had...

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations...

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for...

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for...

Ideas shape the course of history.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...