Nothing changes more constantly that the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but what men believe happened.

Gerald White Johnson

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Nature of history History

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Gerald White Johnson

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American Heroes and Hero Worship

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Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Journalist Writer

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United States

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Johnson, Gerald W. American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Harper & Brothers, 1943.

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The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

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1946 1940s 20th century
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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 24.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 24.

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Language
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Time
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Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

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Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.

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The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

McNabb v. United States

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Rule of law Freedom

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Felix Frankfurter
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McNabb v. United States
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Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. United States, Supreme Court. McNabb v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 318, 1 Mar. 1943, pp. 339-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/332/.