"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"
- H.W. Brands
"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."
"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-..."
"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 m..."
"One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed"
"Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others."
"When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results."
"Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer."
"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 ..."
"He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view."