H.W. Brands Quotes

One of George H. W. Bushs early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

H.W. Brands

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[

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He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

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He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

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He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

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The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

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His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

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He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

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I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

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He made his character his platform.

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Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

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The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

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Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

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Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn’t take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music.