United States historian (1885-1981)

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

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