Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Dumas Malone

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Dumas Malone.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Dumas Malone

Dumas Malone was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history and his co-editorship of the twenty-volume Dictionary of American Biography. In 1983, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness. — © Dumas Malone
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
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