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“Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.”

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“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

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History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had…

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Nobody ever lived in the past.

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“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that…

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“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under…

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“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is…

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Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of…

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“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,”

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“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We”

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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