"History is Philosophy teaching by example."
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"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
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"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
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"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
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"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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