The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ...… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
