Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.
Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, she would write seven decades later.
Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The...
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
On Wednesday night, November 13, (1861), Lincoln went with Seward and Hay to McClellan's house. Told that the general was at a wedding, the three waited in the parlor for an hour. When McClellan arriv...
Lincoln’s liberal use of his pardoning power created the greatest tension between the two men (Lincoln and Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War). Stanton felt compelled to protect military discipline by ex...
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult’s rope.
Of bed rest. Thee feared that his son was
In 1908, in a wild and remote area of the North Caucasus, Leo Tolstoy, the greatest writer of the age, was the guest of a tribal chief living far away from civilized life in the mountains. Gathering h...
I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theod...
The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the presiden...
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
