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Quote by Walter Bagehot
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

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History
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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

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[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart. – Arthur Bestor

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

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History is a peoples memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcom X

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