“The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several… — Hugh Brogan Industrial revolution 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… — Hugh Brogan New day 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… — Hugh Brogan Communication 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… — Hugh Brogan Freedom 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 Politics 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… — Hugh Brogan Wall street 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… — Hugh Brogan Books 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… — 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… — Hugh Brogan History 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… — Hugh Brogan Habits 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… — Hugh Brogan American history Copy Share Image
“The Congressmen and Senators themselves had seen to it that bribery was the only way of doing business with them. Frequently they… — Hugh Brogan Business Copy Share Image
“In the South it was feared that immigrants did not have the correct racial attitudes: five Italians were lynched, in Tallulah, Louisiana,… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“A common canard of the time showed Ike viewing the Presidency simply as an agreeable place in which to pass the early… — Hugh Brogan Time Copy Share Image
“The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the ‘mistake’ of… — Hugh Brogan Soviet union Copy Share Image
“in statesmanship, too great a preoccupation to avoid the errors of the past makes it likely that you will fall into the… — Hugh Brogan Time Copy Share Image
“Cordell Hull and other good Wilsonians who had pinned their faith on international law were outraged and frightened chiefly by Hitler’s lies,… — Hugh Brogan International law Copy Share Image
“his genius (for that it undoubtedly was) lay in a certain hot, instinctive cunning which told him how to win power, headlines… — Hugh Brogan Early life Copy Share Image
“Lincoln spoke for them when, in his first inaugural, he affirmed that labour is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“George Wallace, who had been Governor of Alabama during the worst of the troubles there. Wallace had a knack of appealing to… — Hugh Brogan George w Copy Share Image
“No, the art of government was to curb and guide men’s greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist… — Hugh Brogan Art Copy Share Image
“It is not true that people learn nothing from history: they are marvellous at learning the wrong lessons.” — Hugh Brogan History Copy Share Image
“by 1890 there were 166,703 miles of railroad (and more to come) and a single railroad corporation might have as many as 36,000 employees. This” — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
