Famous quotes by Historians

"The ego is willing, but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit that his mind ages"

Will Durant, Historian

"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law"

Will Durant, Historian

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"

Will Durant, Historian

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers, and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers"

Will Durant, Historian

"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years"

Will Durant, Historian

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle"

Will Durant, Historian

"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard"

Will Durant, Historian

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul"

Will Durant, Historian

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order"

Will Durant, Historian

"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income"

Will Durant, Historian

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent"

Will Durant, Historian

"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal"

Will Durant, Historian

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country"

Will Durant, Historian

"Civilization is the order, and freedom is promoting cultural activity"

Will Durant, Historian

"A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist"

Will Durant, Historian

"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice"

Lord Acton, Historian

"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye"

Lord Acton, Historian

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion"

Lord Acton, Historian

"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future"

Lord Acton, Historian

"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority!"

Lord Acton, Historian

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Socialism means slavery"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor, it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith"

Lord Acton, Historian

"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper: today, we sigh"

Lord Acton, Historian

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money!"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites"

Lord Acton, Historian

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that"

Lord Acton, Historian

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