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Quote of the Day

Posted by Lexington Green on February 23rd, 2004 (All posts by Lexington Green)

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Here is one of the great paradoxes of modernity. The more the world changes, the more important history becomes. A few scholars like to say that the past is a foreign country, but they could not be more mistaken. The past is our country. Our own kin lived there. The memory of what they did is becoming ever more important as part of our lives.

– David Hackett Fischer (From Washington’s Crossing)

 

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One Response to “Quote of the Day”

  1. Robert Schwartz Says:
    February 26th, 2004 at 12:25 am

    Fischer is absolutley the best of our academic historians.

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