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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 Iroquois in North…

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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…
Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most…
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the…
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the…
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less…
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…
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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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he… — Edward Hirsch
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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… — Samuel Eliot Morison
If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about… — Andrew Harvey
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder… — Eric Wolf
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their… — D. H. Lawrence
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. — Edward Burnett Tylor

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