"Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to……" — Thomas Frank
"Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians."
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82 Quotes by Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank has 82 quotes on this site.
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to…
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More Historian Quotes
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one of 449 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old…
— Buffalo Bill
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
— Dan Brown
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does…
— Chuck Close
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats…
— Stephen Ambrose
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native…
— U Thant
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
— H.G. Wells
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