H.W. Brands Quotes

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

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

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

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

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."[

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.