Edmund Morgan Quotes

In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

Edmund Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013

Topics

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If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Joan of Arc

GodI AmMeMayKeepAm

People feel extremely comfortable with me personally.

Jennifer Hyman

PeopleMeFeelComfortableExtremely

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

Anat Cohen

New YorkGrowMusiciansEnoughYou

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MedicalStrongPowerfulRulesTest

Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.

Tory Lanez

MeThinkEnoughHotEvenPersonally

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Tony Blair

ConflictSmallWishHeadlineCause

When I meet viewers in person, it always seems to be entire family units.

Rosanna Pansino

FamilyPersonMeetAlwaysSeems

You've got loves of your life and breakups of your life, that kind of thing. They leave a mark. It stays with you, a bad aftertaste.

Jules Asner

LifeYouBadKindLeaveMark

Certain classes of weapons that are strictly military and have no useful purpose in sport, hunting, or self-defense should not be legally sold.

Dick Durbin

PurposeHuntingMilitarySelf-Defense

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

Clive Anderson

ThinkWayThingsBeingDifferent

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

Brian Fallon

WritingOutSureChangedLearned

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Paul Wolfowitz

PeopleGlobalizationSayWantHard

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