Charles Augustus Briggs famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
-- Charles Augustus Briggs

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Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
History is the great propagator of doubt.
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
History is not history unless it is the truth.
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.

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