H.W. Brands

“One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas…

— H.W. Brands

“The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people’s party, and the Republican Party is the party…

— H.W. Brands

“you do not get what is the foundation of the very liberty that we breathe, that the people are entitled to have…

— H.W. Brands

“As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the…

— H.W. Brands

“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to…

— H.W. Brands

“He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military…

— H.W. Brands

“Let this constitution go forth from this convention, and from the new state, a model instrument of liberal and enlightened principles.”

— H.W. Brands

“He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.”

— H.W. Brands

“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.”

— H.W. Brands

“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who…

— H.W. Brands

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore…

— H.W. Brands

“Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the…

— H.W. Brands

“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise…

— H.W. Brands

“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right…

— H.W. Brands

“As when some carcass, hidden in sequestered nook, draws from every near and distant point myriads of discordant vultures, so drew these…

— H.W. Brands