“you do not get what is the foundation of the very liberty that we breathe, that the people are entitled to have the facts, that the judgment of the government itself is subject to their opinion and to their control,… — 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
