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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. - J

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. – James Robertson

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All other forms of history – economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology – seem to me history with the history left out. – A.J.P. Taylor

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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. – William Hague

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