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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

We are set to make very bad history.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is history.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

History is history. What is done is done.

History is more interesting than politics.