The Cause Quotes

“the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

“History is what we choose to remember.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

“Keep in mind that the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783