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1 " He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning. "
― H.W. Brands , American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
2 " He was a generous but subtly demanding boss. "
― H.W. Brands
3 " He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign "
4 " The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. "
5 " His was a quiet but persistent charisma. "
6 " He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. "
7 " I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future. "
8 " He made his character his platform. "
9 " Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved. "
10 " The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along. "
11 " Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again. "
12 " Reagan to son: how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn’t take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music. "
― H.W. Brands , Reagan: The Life
13 " Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else. "
14 " He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. "
― H.W. Brands , The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
15 " Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still. "
16 " His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping. "
17 " He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges. "
18 " He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success. "
19 " This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed "
20 " The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal "
