70 Quotes & Sayings By Hw 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."[ H.W. Brands

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss. H.W. Brands

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. H.W. Brands

His was a quiet but persistent charisma. H.W. Brands

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

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

He made his character his platform. H.W. Brands

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

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along. H.W. Brands

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

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. . H.W. Brands

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

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

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else. H.W. Brands

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. H.W. Brands

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still. H.W. Brands

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping. H.W. Brands

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

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success. H.W. Brands

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

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

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 one's resources. Andrew Carnegie H.W. Brands

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. H.W. Brands

Proving himself to himself was no small matter. H.W. Brands

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength. H.W. Brands

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

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

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 H.W. Brands

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. H.W. Brands

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. H.W. Brands

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's 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. 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 H.W. Brands

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

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

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

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. H.W. Brands

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view. 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 West's industrial age. H.W. Brands

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique. H.W. Brands

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice. H.W. Brands

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters. H.W. Brands

Diplomacy was a long game. H.W. Brands

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend. H.W. Brands

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin H.W. Brands

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

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams. H.W. Brands

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

He forced himself into good spirits. H.W. Brands

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

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

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 H.W. Brands

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

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. H.W. Brands

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

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary. H.W. Brands

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. H.W. Brands

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. H.W. Brands

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him. H.W. Brands

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity. H.W. Brands

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce. H.W. Brands

Even when he played, he made a business of it. H.W. Brands

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues. H.W. Brands

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers. H.W. Brands

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast. H.W. Brands

There was so much — so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda. H.W. Brands

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing. H.W. Brands