With honesty of purpose, ...

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
 Samuel Eliot Morison

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
 Samuel Eliot Morison
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.
 Samuel Eliot Morison
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
 Samuel Eliot Morison
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
 Samuel Eliot Morison