"A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race……" — Samuel Eliot Morison
"A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world."
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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23 Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison has 23 quotes on this site.
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was…
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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…
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted;…
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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…
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . .…
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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,…
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that…
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though…
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can…
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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