Jim

“Today there is still the same ambiguity toward foreigners and foreign influence. The opening and closing of doors. The sullen refuge in isolation.”
― Louise Levathes, When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433

“In the end, the only peril he could not survive was the greatest of all: himself.”
― Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

“What a beautiful, what a happy land this is! Without kings, without high priests, without idle barons. Here everyone is happy.”
― Rick Atkinson, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

“Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
― Gerard N. Magliocca, American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment