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I believe I am an honorable man.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Men
Believe
Honorable
Honorable Man
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Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Life Mistakes
Made
Mistake
Mistakes
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I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Readers
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Failing
Pride
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Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
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Men
Knows
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Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Improbable
Inevitable
Tasks
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I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Believe
Thinking
Writing
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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
History
Chronology
Lasts
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[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Constitution
Genius
Idiot
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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.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Fire
Self
Serenity
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And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Forgiveness
Decent
Kind
Penance
Sin
Ask
After
Confess
Interval
The Only Thing
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Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Crush
Fire
Sweet
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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.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
America
Argument
Mean
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It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Clinton
Distinguished
Pedigree
Presidential
Testify
Urge
Witnesses
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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.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Behavior
Office
Vote
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Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Running
Long
Toss
Vision
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To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Thank You
Better Person
Century
Peter
Son
Three
Wife
Alexander
Almost Everything
Basis
Present
Pulled
Regular
Regular Basis
Scott
Sons
Table
Thank
Therefore
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I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.
Joseph J. Ellis / Historian
Circles
Regret
Vietnam
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