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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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Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right…
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Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw…
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A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed,…
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal…
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and…
— Angus Wilson
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or…
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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
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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…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of…
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The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know…
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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