American Creation Quotes

“Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

“creation: “If I could not go to heaven but with a party,” proclaimed Thomas Jefferson, “I would not go there at all.”1”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation

“It is uncommon for the same men who make a revolution also to secure it.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic