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A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
— Daniel Yergin
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
— Joseph J. Ellis
The land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Your shield must surpass your weaponry.
— Toba Beta
I believe I am an honorable man.
— Joseph J. Ellis
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Don't search for logic where it isn't welcome, the only thing you'll get is a bad headache.
— Natalie Herzer
Singing is really where I got my start in church.
— Danny Gokey
Our way is where God knows
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
And Love knows where:
We are in Love's hand to-day. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
— Joseph J. Ellis
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
The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.
— Joseph J. Ellis
(Asked to explain the defeat, Adams put it succinctly: "In general, our Generals were out generalled.") Washington
— Joseph J. Ellis
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
— Joseph J. Ellis
God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.
— 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.
— Joseph J. Ellis
For Madison, on the other hand, "a Public Debt is a Public curse," and "in a Representative Government greater than in any other."26
— Joseph J. Ellis
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
— Joseph J. Ellis
He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.
— Joseph J. Ellis
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
— Joseph J. Ellis
In time to come be shaped by the human mind. Asked
— 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
If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
— Joseph J. Ellis
I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.
— Rick Riordan
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.
— Tom Ellis
The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
— Langdon Elwyn Mitchell