H.W. Brands

It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

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

The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

He forced himself into good spirits.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

Diplomacy was a long game.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.