Quote #3

I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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  1. It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuv…
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  3. All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers …
  4. Politics is the art of human happiness.

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