Grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Wilson argued that the wealth of America lay in its small businesses, its towns and villages. Its vitality does not lie in New York, nor in Chicago, he asserted; it will not be sapped by anything that...
When they returned home, he took his young son aside. Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should, he admonished. You...
When angry at a colleague, Lincoln would fling off what he called a hot letter, releasing all his pent wrath. He would then put the letter aside until he cooled down and could attend the matter with a...
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...
In order to win a man to your cause, Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
He sought the knowledge—not easily accessible—of who had the power of decision over the particular matter in question, and, the source of authority identified, by what means influence could be exerted...
From his early twenties, Lyndon Johnson had operated upon the premise that if he could get up earlier and meet more people and stay up later than anybody else, victory would be his.
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.
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.
We shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
Precocious
National press. He called them by their first names, invited them
Undaunted, Will confronted Rose on a street corner and administered what the newspapers termed a terrible beating. He reportedly lifted him up and dashed him to the pavement, executing continuous blow...
The bullet that rests in Roosevelt’s chest has killed Wilson for the Presidency, one Democratic speaker suspected.
If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!
If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
I HAVE NO DOUBT that Lincoln will be the conspicuous figure of the war, predicted Ulysses S. Grant. He was incontestably the greatest man I ever knew.
Get the books, and read and study them, he told a law student seeking advice two decades later. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
Get the books, and read and study them, he told a law student seeking advice in 1855. It did not matter, he continued, whether the reading be done in a small town or a large city, by oneself or in the...