“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“you do not get what is the foundation of the very liberty that we breathe, that the people are entitled to have the facts,… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public,… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people’s party, and the Republican Party is the party of special… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise discouraged Republicans,… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“As when some carcass, hidden in sequestered nook, draws from every near and distant point myriads of discordant vultures, so drew these little flakes… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
