Assemblyman Isaac Hunt, who later became a close friend, would never forget the first time he saw Roosevelt. He came in as if he had been ejected by a catapult, Hunt recalled.
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...
The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater.
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
But it would be a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service...
York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: Mr. Roosevelt’s departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be, its chief interest lies in the...
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.We a...
There was little to lead one to suppose that Abraham Lincoln, nervously rambling the streets of Springfield that May morning, who scarcely had a national reputation, certainly nothing to equal any of...
There are two antagonistic elements of society in America, Seward had proclaimed, freedom and slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government and with the spirit of the age, and is theref...
There are points of likeness in the seminal disasters that befell both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in the early stages of their careers. Both crucibles were precipitated by a combination of...
There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . .
The young man never seemed to know what idleness was, marveled Cutler, and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some English classic or some abstruse book on natural history in his hands.
The surest way to be happy, Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, is to seek happiness for others.
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 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 only question now, he said, is which corpse gets the most flowers.
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 meanest man in the world, he remarked, is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores on the city of New York. Realizing