Quotes by H.W. Brands

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the Wests industrial age.

Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwaters doctrine with John F. Kennedys technique.

Chinese immigrant: Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

Diplomacy was a long game.

Fatigue could be the dealmakers friend.

Americas mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

He forced himself into good spirits.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bushs parents on his Andover application

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navys power and camaraderie and purpose.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

Its philanthropy, but its good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

William Boss Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.