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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to…

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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of…
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of…
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the…
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility…
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for…
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with…
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,…
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient…
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions…
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable…

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston Churchill
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in… — John Sedgwick
If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated… — Runoko Rashidi
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history. — Adolf von Harnack
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the… — John Thorn
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. — A J P Taylor
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan
I study history in order to give an interpretation. — Oliver Stone
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study… — Joan Sutherland

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