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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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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or…
— David Bailey
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a…
— Samuel Butler
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement.…
— Sam Abell
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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
— Andre Simon
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going…
— Robert Benchley
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I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I…
— James Russell Lowell
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.…
— C.S. Lewis
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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