Quotes by H.W. Brands

“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 go...”

“He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.”

“Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.”

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

“Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.”

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

“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. Bush's 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 navy's 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.”

“It's philanthropy, but it's 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.”