...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.
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made. - Joseph J. Ellis
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
- Joseph J. Ellis
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. - Joseph J. Ellis
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
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 lif… - Joseph J. Ellis
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 lif…
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust. - Joseph J. Ellis
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making. - Joseph J. Ellis
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
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
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.
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 th… - Joseph J. Ellis
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 th…
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 … - Joseph J. Ellis
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 …
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
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.
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