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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; an

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. – Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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