Thomas A. Bailey Quotes

• Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

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• The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

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  "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.

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• Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.

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  Responsibility   Thinking   History  

  Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.10, Ardent Media

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• Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

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  Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.15, Ardent Media

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