Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Quote by H G Wells

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men...

It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men...

If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free...

If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free...

Every war is a national misfortune

Every war is a national misfortune