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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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It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they…
— John Henrik Clarke
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If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.
— Cesar Romero
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As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent…
— George Blake
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No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I…
— Van Morrison
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From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the…
— Russ Carnahan
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The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen…
— Russ Carnahan
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The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international…
— John C. Stennis
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of…
— Candice S. Miller
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The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.
— Wole Soyinka
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline…
— Anthony Albanese
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