H. W. Brands Quotes
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Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.
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Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
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Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and stop. You do not do that. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them
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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.
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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.
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It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.
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Both sides had more confidence in their opponents weaknesses than their own strength.
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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.
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Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
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The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
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In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.
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Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.