H.W. Brands Quotes - Page 2

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

He forced himself into good spirits.