Stentorian
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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.
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural...
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their child...
From John Hay's diary) The President never appeared to better advantage in the world, Hay proudly noted in his diary. Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of...
A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.
Discipline and keen insight had once again served Lincoln most effectively. By regulating his emotions and resisting the impulse to strike back at Chase when the circular first became known, he gained...
Frances, who also was feeling distant from her husband. Though still deeply in love after ten years of marriage, Frances worried that her husband’s passion for politics and worldly achievement surpass...
He would blanket someone with generosity, care, and affection, but in recompense, expect total loyalty and sterling achievement. Failing this standard was perceived by him as a betrayal. His affection...
If the problems created by the industrial age were left unattended, Roosevelt cautioned, America would eventually be sundered by those dreadful lines of division that set the haves and the have-nots a...
If defeat is an orphan, the old saying goes, victory has a thousand fathers,
In the age-old debate about whether leadership traits are innate or developed, memory—the ease and capacity with which the mind stores information—is generally considered an inborn trait.
It’s a bully speech, encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived, and that to connect his name with the events transpiring in his d...
Seward’s only hope for reelection lay in Weed’s ability to cobble together an antislavery majority from among the various discordant elements in the state legislature. In the weeks before the legislat...
Sometimes, sitting in the park with my boys, I imagine myself back at Ebbets Field, a young girl once more in the presence of my father, watching the players of my youth on the grassy fields below—Jac...
Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling...
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