Certainty Quote by Henry Steele Commager

“Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.”

Henry Steele Commager

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History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

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