Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.


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SAMUEL GOMPERS
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER
Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER
When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE
Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE
Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH
I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL
The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE
Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER