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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

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Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

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The very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

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I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
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Born: July 18, 1943 (age 83)
Bio: Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America.
Known for:
  1. Founding Brothers (2000)
  2. His Excellency: George Washington (2004)
  3. American Creation (2007)

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