Quotes by Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

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In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronag — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronag — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to c — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to c — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with o — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with o — Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815