He would view each position as a test of character, effort, endurance, and will. He would keep nothing in reserve for some will-o-the-wisp future. Rather, he would regard each job as a pivotal test, a...
His fierce determination to escape an invalid’s fate led him to transform his body and timid demeanor through strenuous work; Taft, on the other hand, blessed from birth with robust health, would allo...
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.
I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
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.
I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don’t see how in the world we can give them up.
If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore the fellow feeling, mutual respect,...
If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!
In Life magazine in the mid-fifties, Robert Couglan railed against the disease of working women, who insisted on ruining their children and their family life.
In order to win a man to your cause, Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
Indeed, several months later, when Lincoln became convinced that Schofield was actually leaning toward the conservatives instead of using his influence to harmonize the conflicting elements, he decide...
Largely to gain Nellie’s approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he wr...
Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics, a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. Here was a man—a Democrat until a couple of years ago—who, without any organization went into a Republican...
On the return trip, they passed a brigade of black soldiers, who rushed forward to greet the president, screaming, yelling, shouting: ‘Hurrah for the Liberator; Hurrah for the President.’ Their spont...
Transforming his body was only one step in the psychological struggle against what Teedie shamefully considered his timid nature. There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, he ackn...
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...
Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh—there T...
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,
American philosopher William James wrote of the mysterious formation of identity, that the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, w...
Such scathing criticisms moved Southern leaders to equally fierce defenses. They proclaimed slavery a positive good rather than a mere necessity, of immense benefit to whites and blacks alike.
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