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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic QUOTES

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic QUOTES

1 " Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves. "

― Joseph J. Ellis , American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

2 " creation: “If I could not go to heaven but with a party,” proclaimed Thomas Jefferson, “I would not go there at all.”1 "

― Joseph J. Ellis , American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

3 " It is uncommon for the same men who make a revolution also to secure it. "

― Joseph J. Ellis , American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic