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“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”     Jean Genet

“The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.”     Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.”     Edward Morgan Forster

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”     Henry Ford

“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”     Henry Ford

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”     Henry Ford

“Asking ‘Who ought to be the boss?’ is like asking ‘Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”     Henry Ford

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”     Gerald R. Ford

“It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”     Gerald R. Ford