"But it struck me that the extreme violence……" — Simon Schama
"But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War,…
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More Civil Quotes
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one of 1,421 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked…
— Dan Aykroyd
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an…
— Samuel Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
— Joe Biden
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
— Joe Biden
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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