Indeed, the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day. The key to success, he insisted, is work, work, work.
Hit the ground running; consolidate control; ask questions of everyone wherever you go; manage by wandering around; determine the basic problems of each organization and hit them head-on; when attacke...
His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality—kindness, se...
Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt’s self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.
Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. Do not answer Bryan; attack him! he counseled in early September, adding, Don’t let him make the iss...
FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn
Each party profited by the offices when in power, Roosevelt explained, and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly what it itself had done and intended agai...
Do leaders shape the times or do the times summon their leaders?
Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore’s intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow’s fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodo...
By privately endorsing Seward’s spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and pot...
By appealing to the moral and philosophical foundation work of the nation, Lincoln hoped to provide common ground on which good men in both the North and the South could stand. I am not now combating...
Before any outcome was made public, the radicals had worked themselves into a fury of rage, certain that the president was about to give up the political fruits which had been already gathered
Avoid dull facts; create memorable images; translate every issue into people’s lives; use simple, everyday language; never use big words when small words will do. Simplify the concept that we are tryi...
As S. S. McClure well understood, the vitality of democracy depends on popular knowledge of complex questions. At
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
Think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, Edith later wrote, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day. The key to success, he insisted, is work, work, work.
No man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit.
Indefatigable
Homespun