« All Still Far Quotes · Samuel Eliot Morison's Page

Still Far Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison

1 Still Far quote by Samuel Eliot Morison

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a…

More Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most…
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the…
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the…
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less…
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious…

See all 23 quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison »

More Still Far Quotes

Popular Still Far quotes from across the collection:

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our… — Michael Bloomberg
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn
Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away. — Billiam Coronel
Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional — Unknown Author
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage… — Unknown Author
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory… — Carl Jung
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose… — Max Planck
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. — Vincent Van Gogh
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain… — Paul Klee
I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles. — Chris Hardwick

See all Still Far Quotes »

Browse Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes by Category