Dumas Malone quotes
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“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
-- Dumas MaloneSource : Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”
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“American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.”
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“The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.”
-- Dumas Malone
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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“There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,”
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“They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.”
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“Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.”
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“The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.”
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“Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!”
Source : Speech to Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 Sept. 1792
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