3 Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes on History

Daniel J. Boorstin quotes on history

5. The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

6. While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

10. Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.