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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for…
— Paul Cezanne
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In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a…
— Bertrand Russell
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I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised…
— Unknown Author
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I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we…
— Margaret Beckett
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext…
— Ernest Renan
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Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels…
— C.S. Lewis
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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of…
— Plato
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Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
— Harry Browne
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