H.W. Brands quotes:

William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

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.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

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

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

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.

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

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

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

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

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.