"An historian should yield himself to his subject,……" — Samuel Eliot Morison
"An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view."
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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23 Quotes by Samuel Eliot Morison
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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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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves…
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