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Quote by Jacob Burckhardt
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in anot

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. – Jacob Burckhardt

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock

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