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Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
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History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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