Gordon S. Wood

Quotes

• “In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronag...”
• “Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution,...”
• “Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. ...”
• “Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing shou...”
• “Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with o...”
• “In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to c...”