“Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your… — 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, in transportation facilities, in theaters and other public amusements and in the selection of juries—passed both chambers. The measure reached the White House about the time the two sides in Louisiana cobbled a compromise that allowed… — H.W. Brands Copy Share
“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 all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France… — H.W. Brands Copy Share
“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise discouraged Republicans, including most of the freedmen, that they counted for little in Southern politics. With any Democratic presidential nominee guaranteed the South, any Republican had to perform overwhelmingly in the North.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share
“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 of gold the voracious sons of men. …This little scratch upon the earth to make a backwoods mill-race touched the cerebral nerve that quickened humanity, and sent a thrill throughout the system. It tingled in the… — H.W. Brands Copy Share
“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
