"The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present."

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Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

Herbert Butterfield

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“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
“No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”
“Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.”
“An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”
“I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.”
“It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.”
“The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.”

Source : "California Voters Should Remember Troy Davis This November" by Ben Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2016.

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