“Fiddlesticks!” Rall replied. “These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them.”58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants.” — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“The island was said to be “completely covered with pigeons.” Thousands of them fattened on the raspberries, and the settlers fed on the pigeons.16” — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share
“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.” — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“Fiddlesticks!” Rall replied. “These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them.”58 (on… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
“Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, “Give me six lines written by the hand of… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
