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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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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by…
— Dave Barry
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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood…
— Stokely Carmichael
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not…
— John F. Kennedy
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There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter…
— Democritus
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The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with…
— Unknown Author
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .…
— Ayn Rand
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Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;…
— John F. Kennedy
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As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's…
— Brennan Manning
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