Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long...
Lincoln was the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged by the force of events or wasting strength in pre...
Moreover, he objected, I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don’t like to begin now.
Nor did Johnson restrict his insistence on his concept of the proper relations between President and Congress to infringements proposed by liberal Democrats. In 1955 the conservative Republicans spons...
Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.
Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.
Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, but not one who will interest you more.
The American people, Johnson continued, are tired of wrecking crews. They want builders—people who construct. They will entrust their affairs to the party that is constructive. They will turn their ba...
The American people, Johnson continued, are tired of wrecking crews. They want builders—people who construct. They will entrust their affairs to the party that is constructive.
The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.
The art of communication, Lincoln advised newcomers to the bar, is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. Yet, Lincoln warned, the lawyer must not rely on rhetorical glibness or persuasiveness alone. What...
The failed deal crushed McClure, precipitating a nervous breakdown in April 1900 that propelled him to Europe to undergo the celebrated rest-cure devised by an American physician, S. Weir Mitchell. Pr...
The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. Yet, beyond sharing
The only question now, he said, is which corpse gets the most flowers.
The painful apprehension within the administration mirrored the fears experienced in hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the country.
The people placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own co...
The politician, Johnson’s experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justifica...
The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed to try the President’s strength or impair his good temper. At one o’clock, Roosevelt
The story-high house of hewn logs is clean and neat, with many rooms, he wrote, so that one can be alone if one wishes to. The central room featured a massive stone hearth with trophy heads gazing dow...
The surest way to be happy, Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, is to seek happiness for others.
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