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We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy, he proclaimed, instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteou...
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic,
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
Private citizens were asked to open their homes;
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
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Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln’s mind,
Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty, Henry Demarest Lloyd
—The Dallas Morning
Stentorian
Humility is the first and greatest of virtues.
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Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.
Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life—a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes.
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.