Quote by Lord Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the s

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. – Lord Acton

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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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Real history is a candid shot. The history of textbooks poses for its pictures. – Terri Guillemets

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I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. – Dianne Feinstein

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. – Bear Grylls

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