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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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To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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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…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
— Thomas Hobbes
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;…
— Roland Barthes
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
— Patrick Ness
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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must…
— Thomas Mann
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The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.…
— Patrick Ness
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