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H.W. Brands Quotes | Quotes said by H.W. Brands

  • H.W. Brands Quote #1

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


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

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

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

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    Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

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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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    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 Quote #8

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

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

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

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

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    Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

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

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    Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

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    Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

  • H.W. Brands Quote #16

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

  • H.W. Brands Quote #17

    He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

  • H.W. Brands Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

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

  • H.W. Brands Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

  • H.W. Brands Quote #26

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

  • H.W. Brands Quote #27

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

  • H.W. Brands Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

  • H.W. Brands Quote #30

    Publicity is the engine of politics.

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