Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

#1. Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#2. Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

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#3. Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

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#4. I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

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#5. The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

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#6. We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

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#7. Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

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#8. I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

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#9. Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

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#10. What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

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#11. The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

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