I have always been fond of the West African proverb: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,’
I don’t know that I will ever make a political speech again. Would he care to qualify that statement? one reporter queried. Yes, Roosevelt laughingly said. I won’t say never.
Everything was of interest to him, marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition, he wrote. I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succee...
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...
Don’t hit till you have to, but, when you do hit, hit hard.
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...
Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he ought to be President; he has no doubt whatever about that. These two unfortunate tend...
As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish...
Although the guilty verdict surprised few, the size of the resulting fine stunned the company and the country. For each of the 1,462 carloads of oil that had enjoyed an illegal rebate, Landis levied t...
A government had better go to the very extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
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...
Lincoln reflecting on) George Washington's words: It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that...
We have a solemn responsibility to cooperate with the President and produce a program that is neither his blueprint nor our blueprint but a combination of the two.
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 one knew better than Lincoln that words have consequences. In a world of tinder, he was determined to hold his rhetorical gifts in abeyance in order to reach across factions and avoid a single spar...
Morning I was at work in the Labor Department
Magnanimity
Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery
If ever an argument can be made for the conclusive importance of the character and intelligence of the leader in fraught times, at home and abroad, it will come to rest on the broad shoulders of Frank...