Quotes by : Joseph J. Ellis

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps....

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead....

I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions....

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval,....

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies,....

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination....

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good....

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We....

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson....

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he....