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History is the memory of things said and done.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected ... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.