Samuel Eliot Morison Quotes - Page 2

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Space, Decision, Soldier

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• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Country, Honesty, Intellectual

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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