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I Think It's Important To Remember That These Men Are Not Perfect. If They Were Marble Gods, What They Did Wouldn't Be So Admirable. The More We See The Founders As Humans The More We Can Understand Them.

History Isn't Just What Happened, But What Happened To Whom And Why And What Would Have Been Different If The Cast Of Characters Had Been Different.

I Think It's Best To Pick A Biographical Subject Who Lives To A Ripe Old Age. Older People Tend To Relax And Speak Their Minds. They're Dropping Some Of The Masks That They've Been Wearing. There's A Candor.

Unlike The People You See In Mathew Brady's Photographs From The Civil War, The Men And Women Of The Revolution Seem More Like Characters In A Costume Pageant. And It's A Pageant In Which The Performers Are All Handsome As Stage Actors, With Uniforms And Dress That Are Always Costume Perfect.

The Evil Of Technology Was Not Technology Itself, Lindbergh Came To See After The War, Not In Airplanes Or The Myriad Contrivances Of Modern Technical Igenuity, But In The Extent To Which They Can Distance Us From Our Better Moral Nature, Or Sense Of Personal Accountability.