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.
J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.
Diplomacy was a long game.
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.
America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin
Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
He forced himself into good spirits.
Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.
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.
When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.
He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.
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.
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.
Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.
Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.
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.
Even when he played, he made a business of it.
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
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.
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.
There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.
Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
