"History is not history unless it is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
History is not history unless it is the truth.
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“With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.”
“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
“Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.”
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“There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.”
“India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.”
“All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon”