Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Patience and Action
P
Happiness Choice
H
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Moral Choice
M
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Perseverance
P
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Studying the Past
S
To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Past’s Legacy
P
The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Identity Stories
I
Nations, like people, tell stories in order to understand who they are.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Facts and Truth
F
Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information chiseled in relief against the bedrock of what we can know.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
Historian’s Role
H
The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States
History and Evidence
H
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.
Jill Lepore – These Truths: A History of the United States