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He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer…

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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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I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer. — Wolfgang Ostwald
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