Differences Quote by H. W. Brands

“Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.”

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Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

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The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

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The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

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The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the…

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The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

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