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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with… — John P. Kotter
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. — Fareed Zakaria
The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had… — Peggy Noonan
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark. — Joan Rivers
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our… — Don Aitkin
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the… — John Roberts
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway. I love… — Kevin Sampsell
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize… — Ed Markey
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a… — Josef Pieper
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a… — Lysander Spooner
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them… — H. L. Richardson
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills… — Fisher Ames
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. — Fisher Ames
Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically — Mao Zedong
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night — Eamon de Valera
There is nothing more dangerous than security. — Francis Walsingham
The human heart will never wrinkle — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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