Quotes by H.W. Brands

“He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.”

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

“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 cheat...”

“A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”

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

“A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.”

“Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.”

“One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.”

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

“His was a quiet but persistent charisma.”

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

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

“He made his character his platform.”

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

“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...”

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

“The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.”

“He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.”

“Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.”

“His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.”