“One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.” — Jack Weatherford Freedom Copy Share Image
“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis… — Jack Weatherford Books Copy Share Image
“In probably the first law of its kind anywhere in the world, Genghis Khan decreed complete and total religious freedom for everyone.” — Jack Weatherford Freedom Copy Share Image
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words. — Jack Weatherford Action Copy Share Image
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. — Jack Weatherford Animal Copy Share Image
Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others. — Jack Weatherford Dreams Copy Share Image
“the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.” — Jack Weatherford Mongol Copy Share Image
“For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.” — Jack Weatherford Feminism Copy Share Image
“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the… — Jack Weatherford Factories Copy Share Image
The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the… — Jack Weatherford Distribution Copy Share Image
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than… — Jack Weatherford Anger Copy Share Image
“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the… — Jack Weatherford Capitalist Copy Share Image
“From riding nearly fifty miles in one day on a horse, I learned that the fifteen feet of silk tied tightly around… — Jack Weatherford Silk Copy Share Image
“The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever… — Jack Weatherford Christian church Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into… — Jack Weatherford Colony Copy Share Image
“The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement “Mound City” in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but… — Jack Weatherford Indians Copy Share Image
“The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign—total victory.… — Jack Weatherford Mongols Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group… — Jack Weatherford Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from… — Jack Weatherford Two years Copy Share Image
“Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his… — Jack Weatherford Columbus Copy Share Image
“The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel… — Jack Weatherford Dairy products Copy Share Image
The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel… — Jack Weatherford Bones Copy Share Image
“Despite all the Indian ruins and the abiding native communities, plaques around Lake Itasca proclaim that Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovered the source… — Jack Weatherford Mississippi river Copy Share Image
“The natives of North America were some of the best hunters ever known anywhere in the world; their skill and accuracy frequently… — Jack Weatherford Hunters Copy Share Image
“bear Indian names such as Yukon, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in the north, and Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona in the south.… — Jack Weatherford Indian Names Copy Share Image
“By the time the settlers and pioneers of America reached the West Coast, they had gone through many dramatic landscapes, but nothing… — Jack Weatherford Military general Copy Share Image
“When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined… — Jack Weatherford Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the… — Jack Weatherford American revolution Copy Share Image
“This appeared clearly in one of the earliest burial mounds found on the Hopewell farm. There, archaeologists found a young man and… — Jack Weatherford Side by side Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed… — Jack Weatherford Books Copy Share Image
Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and… — Jack Weatherford Enemy Copy Share Image
“officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed… — Jack Weatherford Poetry Copy Share Image
“The word blizzard probably derives from an Indian word, although its origin is now lost. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the… — Jack Weatherford Blizzard Copy Share Image
“Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of… — Jack Weatherford Victory Copy Share Image
“The Mongols who inherited Genghis Khan’s empire exercised a determined drive to move products and commodities around and to combine them in… — Jack Weatherford Mongols Copy Share Image
“The English explorer Martin Frobisher developed a novel technique for using the services of the Inuit as pilots for his ship during… — Jack Weatherford Inuit Copy Share Image
