Who can refute a sneer?

Quote by William Paley

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There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the...

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the...

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported...

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported...

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the...

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the...

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of...

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of...

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth,...

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth,...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and...

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and...

There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible...

There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible...

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

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.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy...

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy...

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but...

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but...

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in...

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in...

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power....

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power....

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred...

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred...

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US...

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US...

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power...

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power...