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

— H.W. Brands

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

— 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.

— H.W. Brands

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

— H.W. Brands

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

— H.W. Brands

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

— H.W. Brands

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

— H.W. Brands

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

— H.W. Brands

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

— H.W. Brands

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.

— H.W. Brands