Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Carl L. Becker (American Historian)

Carl Lotus Becker (1873–1945) was an American historian. He specialized in the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and the American Revolutionary period.

Born near Waterloo, Iowa, Becker was a graduate of Wisconsin University. He taught at Columbia, Pennsylvania State College, Dartmouth, and Kansas (1902–16) and became a professor of European history at Cornell University (1917–41.) He was influenced by his Wisconsin professor, Frederick Jackson Turner. Becker’s early works included History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760–1776 (1909.)

Becker is noted for his analysis of thought and philosophy in action, particularly during the American Revolutionary period, as evidenced in The Beginnings of the American People (1915,) The United States: An Experiment in Democracy (1920,) and The Declaration of Independence (1922, 1942.) His Benjamin Franklin: A Biographical Sketch (1946) was initially published as an essay for the Dictionary of American Biography.

Becker also wrote The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (1932,) The Eve of Revolution (1918,) Modern History (1931,) and Progress and Power (1936.)

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If we cannot be on familiar terms with our past, it is no good. We must have a past that is the product of all the present.
Carl L. Becker

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and aware of it.
Carl L. Becker
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