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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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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
— Carl Hubbell
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
— William Shakespeare
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I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
— Shelley Winters
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A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.
— Jang In-hwan
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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
— Kenzo Tange
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The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the…
— Buster Keaton
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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
— Robert Towne
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Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or…
— James De Mille
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Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
— Chief Joseph
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…
— Christopher Dawson
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The…
— Archie Shepp
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