| One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. (Brooks Adams (59)) | |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Brooks Adams (59)) | |
| The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. (Brooks Adams (59)) | |
| Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. (Stephen Ambrose (59)) | |
| Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. (Stephen Ambrose (59)) | |
| As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. (Stephen Ambrose (59)) | |
| Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. (Stephen Ambrose (59)) | |
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