Lawrence Goldstone QUOTES

1 " You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect. "

2 " Never confuse good luck with good planning "

― Lawrence Goldstone

3 " Arius's works were then burned, and he was exiled to Illyria, site of present-day Albania, as lacking in charm then as it is now. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World

4 " Two days after the president spoke, the Senate majority leader, Democrat Mike Mansfield, and the minority leader, Republican Everett Dirksen, together introduced a bill to guarantee voting rights to African Americans. A similar bill was soon introduced in the House of Representatives. Over ferocious opposition by Southern congressmen, the bill passed in both houses. On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

5 " Greatness lies in persuading others to work for good. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Deadly Cure

6 " WHAT SERVETUS HAD NOT taken into account was that it does not take very long for revolutions to turn reactionary. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World

7 " The Wright-Curtiss feud persists to the present day as a proxy war—historians of early flight tend to deify one and demonize the other. Either the Wrights were brilliant visionaries and honest toilers attempting ward off the incursions of those, particularly Curtiss, who stole their ideas and even perhaps improved on them, but refused to acknowledge their debt in word or banknote; or Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

8 " The country may have been called the "United States," but its thirteen members lived under thirteen different constitutions, 9 with thirteen different ways to value money, thirteen different rules of commerce, and thirteen views on how all the problems of the nation should be solved. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

9 " Even in the debates, so repellent was slavery to northerners—and so embarrassing to southerners—that when the subject came up, the delegates often danced around it, employing euphemisms, such as "this unique species of property" or "this unhappy class," as stand-ins for the more disagreeable "slaves." Thus, the words "slave" and "slavery" never appeared in the original Constitution, nor would they until ninety-one years later when the thirteenth amendment abolished the practice "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

10 " James Madison, for example, at one point observed that he "always conceived that the difference of interest in the U. States lay not between the large & small, but the N. & Southn States," and added that "it was pretty well understood that the institution of slavery & its consequences formed the line of discrimination. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

11 " That no one could know for sure in those early days what the delegates really had in mind—or even had said—did nothing to stop those in favor and those opposed from issuing definitive judgments as to the intent of the framers and its effect on the nation. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

12 " That slavery had been an evil forced on the South matched the public statements of a number of Southern delegates to the convention—George Mason had put forth this argument regularly and forcefully—and helped nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century readers square slavery with their otherwise exalted image of the framers. "As long as patriotism remained the principal ingredient of American historical writing, the constitutional convention was regarded as an assemblage of the gods," wrote Gordon Wood. 10 "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

13 " It is not uncommon for the cyclist, in the first flush of enthusiasm which quickly follows the unpleasantness of taming the steel steed, to remark, ‘Wheeling is just like flying!’ This is true in more ways than one.… Both modes of travel are riding upon the air, though in one case a small quantity of air is carried in a bag and in the other the air is unbagged.… To learn to wheel one must learn to balance; to learn to fly one must learn to balance. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

14 " Beard concluded that those who supported the Constitution did so because the new government would guarantee their wealth and the payment of debts owed to them, while those opposed wanted to stay with the more impotent and forgiving Articles of Confederation. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

15 " In an unfortunate and unintended preview, newspapers reported that “Commander Saito was enthusiastic over his experience and expressed his faith in the aeroplane for naval purposes in time of war. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

16 " Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

17 " Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

18 " South Carolina went on what was described as a "war footing" and commenced the hunt for the remaining slaves. 9 Every white male in the colony was armed, and checkpoints were established at ferry crossings. Members of the local Chickasaw and Catawba tribes were offered a bounty for every black they caught. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

19 " Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man. "

― Lawrence Goldstone , Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903