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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.