Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible pa...
What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, the drudgery of the law.
White vividly recalled sitting pop-eyed with wonder at the edge of his chair while Roosevelt spoke with a kind of dynamic, burning candor about his plans.
Grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Homespun
It was not only the executive’s right but his responsibility to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.
Morning I was at work in the Labor Department
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...
Since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes
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.
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.
We should look beyond our noses;
A five minute speech, he pointed out, with fifteen minutes spent afterward is much more effective than a fifteen minute speech, no matter how inspiring, that leaves only five minutes for handshaking.
A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of...
A true leader is a man who can get people to work together on the points on which they agree and who can persuade others that when they disagree there are peaceful methods to settle their differences.
After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wr...
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...
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheet a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Do the times make the leader or does the leader shape the times? How can a leader infuse a...
As a fit and necessary military measure for effecting this object, [preservation of the Union] I, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do order and declare that on the firs...
Showing 321 to 340 of 415 results