Edmund Morris Quotes

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.