With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does. — Ron Chernow Change Copy Share Image
Unless we know where we've been as a country, we don't know where we are or where we are going. — Ron Chernow Country Copy Share Image
“Even as a raw country boy, he allowed himself no oath stronger than “Thunder and Lightning” — Ron Chernow Country boy Copy Share Image
Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. — Ron Chernow Bull market Copy Share Image
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. — Ron Chernow Investing Copy Share Image
I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.' — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.” — Ron Chernow Secession Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even… — Ron Chernow Politics Copy Share Image
I just have been so surprised and delighted with what has happened with 'Hamilton.' It really has been one of the most… — Ron Chernow Life Copy Share Image
“Henceforth he would project himself into opponents’ minds and comprehend their fears and anxieties instead of blowing them up into all-powerful bugaboos,… — Ron Chernow Courage Copy Share Image
“Rawlins was soon sidetracked from the war effort, however, by word from his wife, Emily, staying with her family in Goshen, New… — Ron Chernow Marriage Copy Share Image
“Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was… — Ron Chernow American experience Copy Share Image
“A lifelong Methodist, he had always viewed religious excess with a certain irony, having once told a clutch of ministers that America… — Ron Chernow Methodists Copy Share Image
I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any… — Ron Chernow Biotech Copy Share Image
“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering… — Ron Chernow Firewood Copy Share Image
“Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses “might be preserved from all harm and restored to… — Ron Chernow Hope Copy Share Image
“While Grant was celebrated as a victorious wartime general and the president who had peacefully settled the Alabama claims, most gratifying to… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Johnson had unleashed the political equivalent of an act of war against Congress. Retaliating against the president’s violation of the Tenure of… — Ron Chernow Crimes and misdemeanors Copy Share Image
“In February 1866, he testified before Congress to oppose suffrage for former slaves: “My own opinion is that, at this time, they… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“A rump group of rebel soldiers formed a colony west of Vera Cruz called Carlota, which soon burgeoned into a community of… — Ron Chernow Confederate Copy Share Image
“Historians have been quick to pounce on the blind spots in Grant’s report. Less noticed is that he almost immediately recanted what… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“[Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life… He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine?… — Ron Chernow Death Copy Share Image
“On June 20, at Johnson’s behest, Attorney General James Speed ordered the U.S. attorney in Norfolk to abandon Lee’s prosecution. On the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The spectacle of soldiers entering a statehouse left northern opinion aghast, leading to vociferous demands for Sheridan’s ouster. Major Republican newspapers in… — Ron Chernow New orleans Copy Share Image
“The panic was blamed on many factors—tight money, Roosevelt’s Gridiron Club speech attacking the “malefactors of great wealth,” and excessive speculation in… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“The feud between Sherman and Stanton exposed a deep fissure that would shortly divide the country over Reconstruction. With the war ending,… — Ron Chernow Status quo Copy Share Image
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Both Grant and Sherman were damaged souls who would redeem tarnished reputations in the brutal crucible of war.” — Ron Chernow War Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about. — Ron Chernow Care Copy Share Image
“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.” — Ron Chernow Avarice Copy Share Image
![“[Philip's death was] beyond comparison the most afflicting of my life… He was truly a fine youth. But why should I repine? It was the will of heaven and he is now out of the reach of the seductions and calamities of a world full of folly, full of vice, full of danger, of least value in proportion…” quote by Ron Chernow](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d2/ron-chernow-1189_death_philip-s-death-was-beyond-comparison-the_1595076.png)
