“A library of books like Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916) warned the Americans that they could not safely continue to admit members of inferior races to their country, and asserted that all races were inferior to… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several new social… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“In an election speech in 1936, he said: I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Reverend John Allen of Massachusetts took up the cry: Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!… for while you are fasting, praying,… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold.… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“A library of books like Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916) warned the Americans that they could not safely continue to… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The new Republican party thought that it did, and in its 1856 platform denounced slavery and polygamy together as ‘twin relics of barbarism’. Or” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“a confirmation of two of history’s more dismal lessons: that grand alliances rarely survive the shock of victory, and that great powers usually behave… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Hating your neighbour is almost as secure a psychological prop as loving him, especially if he differs from you in looks, language or habits.” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“The Republicans, however, refused to let power slip from their hands so easily. The carpetbag governments in Louisiana and South Carolina announced that Rutherford… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
