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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

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Science has eliminated distance.

They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.

One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's...

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.

The world advances. Yes, I said, progress, but circling around the sun.

It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.

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For Madison, on the other hand, a Public Debt is a Public curse, and in a Representative Government greater than in any other.26

How the right hand became disabled would be a long story for the left to tell," he wrote to William Stephens Smith. "It was by one of those follies from which good cannot come, but ill may.

As far as his contemporaries were concerned, there was no question about his stature in American history. In the extravaganza of mourning that occurred in more than four hundred towns and hamlets...

In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now.

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously...

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Richard Russell, the segregationist senator from Georgia, warned President Lyndon Johnson that if he signed the Voting Rights Act, the Democratic Party would lose the South for the next thirty years,...

I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever. . . . Such an addiction is the last degredation of a free and moral agent....

When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever...

He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.

The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess.

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Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light.

God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.

{quoting someone else} the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

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First, the achievement of the revolutionary generation was a collective enterprise that succeeded because of the diversity of personalities and ideologies present in the mix. Their interactions and...

{Asked to explain the defeat, Adams put it succinctly: "In general, our Generals were out generalled."} Washington

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

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