H.W. Brands

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies _ boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.