David Hackett Fischer quotes
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“Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.”
-- David Hackett FischerSource : David Hackett Fischer (2006). “Washington's Crossing”, p.370, Oxford University Press
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“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”
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“The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.”
-- David Hackett Fischer
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Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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“I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.”
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Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
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