George Haven Putnam Quotes

United States, Writer
April 2, 1844 – February, 27, 1930.

George Haven Putnam A.M., Litt.D. (April 2, 1844 – February 27, 1930) was an American publisher, soldier, and writer. He was the president of G. P. Putnam's Sons for its first 52 years, from 1872. Putnam was the father of medieval historian Bertha Haven Putnam by his first wife, Rebecca K. Shepard, and of wind power pioneer Palmer Cosslett Putnam by his second, the classical scholar Emily James Smith Putnam.

Also known as Publisher

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

George Haven Putnam
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

George Haven Putnam

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

George Haven Putnam
- People
- Heaven
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

George Haven Putnam
- Faith
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

George Haven Putnam
- Trying
- Success
- Beginning
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

George Haven Putnam
- Effort
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

George Haven Putnam
- Purpose