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English Historian, 1834-1902
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.”

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