-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America
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1019 – “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
-Billie Mobayed
(more…)1010 – “The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”
-E L Doctorow
(more…)988 – “We are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
-Gore Vidal
(more…)953 – “Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.”
-Thomas Edison
(more…)948 – Andrew Jackson on The USA Constitution
“We have now lived almost fifty years under the Constitution framed by the sages and patriots of the Revolution. … We have had our seasons of peace and of war, with all the evils which precede or follow a state of hostility with powerful nations. We encountered these trials with our Constitution yet in its infancy, and under the disadvantages which a new and untried government must always feel when it is called upon to put forth its whole strength without the lights of experience to guide it or the weight of precedents to justify its measures. But we have passed triumphantly through all these difficulties. Our Constitution is no longer a doubtful experiment, and at the end of nearly half a century we find that it has preserved unimpaired the liberties of the people, secured the rights of property, and that our country has improved and is flourishing beyond any former example in the history of nations.”
-Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States of America [See Source Notes for context]
(more…)940 – 「君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。」
“Jūnzǐ yǐ duō shì qiányán wǎng xíng, yǐ chù qí dé.”
“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”
-Fuxi
(more…)930 – “The war is over — the rebels are our countrymen again.”
-Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States of America
(more…)929 – The Monroe Doctrine
“We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere, but with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.”
-James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
(more…)928 – “All of the western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism; this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the west has no moral authority.”
-James Baldwin
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