8 Quotes & Sayings By J Christopher Herold

J. Christopher Herold was born in Reno, Nevada on May 30, 1948. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and the University of California at Santa Barbara with a Masters in Public Administration. In 1975 he began working for the National Park Service in San Francisco, California Read more

In 1981 he became the Director of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which encompasses many of San Francisco's most famous landmarks including Alcatraz Island, Fort Point, and Crissy Field. While there he oversaw the installation of a security system that has been credited with keeping tourists safe from violent crime, saving lives. He left his post as Director of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1992 to pursue a career in public service.

In 1993 he was appointed Director of the United States Mint by United States President Bill Clinton. In 1997 Herold resigned from his position as Director of the United States Mint after accepting an appointment as Assistant Administrator for Management for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2002 Herold left USAID to continue his work in international development and humanitarian assistance.

He is a member of several charitable organizations including: The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), The Commonwealth Club, The Aspen Institute, The Brookings Institution and the Board of Directors for numerous non-profit organizations focused on international development and human rights issues.

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Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. J. Christopher Herold
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His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor. . J. Christopher Herold
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Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody. J. Christopher Herold
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The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revolution and the Enslaver of Europe; they were all agreed in fighting him, and his notion that their disagreement signified national disunion was mere wishful thinking. All dictators since his time have fallen into the same trap: themselves blind to the values of liberty, they cannot conceive that people who disagree on its meaning can nevertheless unite in upholding their freedoms against patent despotism. J. Christopher Herold
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The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to come to their shores, it certainly was not Napoleon who would bring them there. J. Christopher Herold
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Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy. J. Christopher Herold
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. J. Christopher Herold