"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
― Ambrose Bierce
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History
― Ambrose Bierce
More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice."
- "Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
- "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
More In History
- "History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."― Karl Marx
- "My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."― Niklaus Wirth
- "I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings."― Katy Perry