“We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.” -- Kevin O'Higgins
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“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.”
“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”
“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
“History is not history unless it is the truth.”
“The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.”
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
“All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.”
“Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.”
Eamon de Valera Former President of Ireland
