Edmund Morgan Quotes

The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

Edmund Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryWritingAmericaNewFirst

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

Joanna Lumley

LoveLove IsImportantMoreRomance

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

Melania Trump

HomePoliticalVeryPublic

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

Stone Gossard

PeopleProcessDecisionsListenBand

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

PowerInfluenceMoreAbilityBuying

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

Roger Deakins

SimpleAchieveHardestActually

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

Rutherford B. Hayes

TruthI AmPeopleMeNightTruth Is

I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.

Michael Steger

WorkImaginationSchoolWarThink

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

Mitch McConnell

WinningThinkHouseWhiteMoreJust

A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense. Trump is not that leader.

Joseph Stiglitz

LeaderPoliticsEconomicsTaxMuscle

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Douglas Kennedy

TragedyAliveAlwaysPayBeingUs

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Dean Heller

ToughSomeoneKnowCircumstancesUp

Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.

Christopher Buckley

EarlyCongressThreeFirstFlorida

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