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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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