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Samuel Eliot Morison has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
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Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most…
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the…
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less…
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…
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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious…
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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for…
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as…
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I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and…
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And…
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In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came…
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Many girls say tht boys are stone hearted but anything written on stone will be forever
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