All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they were uniformly good-natured. Caricatures even transformed hi...
As S. S. McClure well understood, the vitality of democracy depends on popular knowledge of complex questions. At
Do leaders shape the times or do the times summon their leaders?
Eleanor had been unable to share in her husband’s optimism; she had worried constantly about what America would look like after the fighting stopped, whether the liberal and humane values which had an...
Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt’s self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.
His experience taught him what every party boss has understood through the ages: the practical machinery of the party organization—the distribution of ballots, the checklists, the rounding up of voter...
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...
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...
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
I have always been fond of the West African proverb: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,’
I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I knelt on the small worn bench, I could hear a boy's halting confession through the w...
I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
In less than half a dozen years, seemingly from nothing and from nowhere, he had risen to become a respected leader in the state legislature, a central figure in the fight for internal improvements, a...
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed, Abigail Adams wrote to her son John Quincy Adams in the midst of the American Revolution, sug...
It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, he observed, that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations o...
It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.
It was Andrew Jackson’s motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him—the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that...
Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion.
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