My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
We are set to make very bad history.
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