#tory

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#decades #democratic #free #freedom #history

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#does #knowledge #our #perception #sufficient

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

History is Philosophy teaching by example. ↗

— Thucydides

#example #history #philosophy #teaching

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter. ↗

— Ted Demme

#aware #being #between #daughter #father

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#american #american history #before #come #committee

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#had #harder #history #life #past

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively