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“Those who give up essential liberty, to preserve a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Thomas Fleming, The American Revolution

“[Thomas Jefferson] was occasionally troubled by the widespread indifference to marital vows among the rich [in France]. Domestic happiness, as Jefferson understood it, and had experienced it in America, was dismissed as a myth.”
― Thomas Fleming, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation

“Truman repeatedly stressed the unique nature of the American presidency. He called it the greatest office ever created by the mind of man. In the Truman Presidential Library, only a few blocks from his house, he had ordered an inscription to be prominently displayed, listing the six tasks of the president. He was commander-in-chief of the armed forces, leader of his political party, initiator of legislation, maker of foreign policy, the head of state and the chief executive, responsible for seeing that the laws passed by Congress were respected and obeyed.”
― Thomas Fleming, Storms Over the Presidency

“successors will agree with Harry Truman’s belief that this unique office carries with it a huge responsibility for America’s destiny. Though political storms may loom and other sorts of upheavals may rage, America’s founders have given us the power to emerge from their darkness and confusion, thanks to the leadership that a president can invoke in the name of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
― Thomas Fleming, Storms Over the Presidency

“You, I now see,” he said, “show your love like Christians indeed one to another but we let one another lie and die like dogs.”
― Thomas Fleming, One Small Candle: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

“no more effect upon [him] than the miracles of Moses had on the heart of Pharaoh.” The argument boiled”
― Thomas Fleming, Benjamin Franklin: The Man Who Dared the Lightning

“add”
― Thomas Fleming, One Small Candle: The Pilgrims' First Year in America

“dedimus”
― Thomas Fleming, Benjamin Franklin: The Man Who Dared the Lightning

“For John Adams, however, these warlike gestures could not undo the stupidity (as he saw it) of John”
― Thomas Fleming, Liberty! The American Revolution

“Azor,”
― Thomas Fleming, Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge

“Few Southerners were more instinctively aristocratic than the South Carolinians. When”
― Thomas Fleming, Dreams of Glory

“He was unquestionably a man ready, willing, and able to live dangerously.”
― Thomas Fleming, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation

“had shaken their faith in popular virtue. “The evils we experience,” Gerry said, “flow from an excess of democracy. The”
― Thomas Fleming, Stories of the American Revolution