Quotes by H.W. Brands

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his minds eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering ones resources. Andrew Carnegie

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents weaknesses than their own strength.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bushs mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guys point of view.