I have ever preferred that a man should tell me face to face that he will or will not do a thing, than to promise to do it and then to not do it.
I made the discovery long ago that very few people made a great difference to me, but that those few mattered enormously. I live surrounded by people, and my thoughts are always with the few that matt...
If ever there was a country unprepared for the war, it was the U.S. in 1940. And yet now, only four years later, the United States was clearly the most productive, most powerful country on the face of...
If the continuing problems created by the Industrial Age were not addressed, he warned, the country would eventually be sundered by those dreadful lines of division that set the haves and the have-not...
In Louisiana, a group of nine Negro GIs boarded a train for transfer from the hospital at Camp Claiborne to the hospital at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The train was delayed for twelve hours. The only p...
In the long sentences of the president’s message, semicolons followed by yet or but separated clauses that balanced each side of an issue, reflecting Roosevelt’s characteristic on the one hand, on the...
In this first foray into politics, Lincoln also pledged that if his opinions on any subject turned out to be erroneous, he stood ready to renounce them. With this commitment, Lincoln revealed early on...
Presidents and Kings are not apt to see flaws in their own arguments, he wrote, but fortunately for the Union, it had a President, at this critical juncture, who combined a logical intellect with an u...
Sam Parks was simply a paid agent for his union, receiving the same salary as an ordinary workman in his trade. In reality, Baker tracked him riding about in his cab, wearing diamonds, appearing on th...
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in another context many years later, the grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endu...
The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.
The biggest danger to American stability, Johnson argued, is the politics of principle, which brings out the masses in irrational fights for unlimited goals, for once the masses begin to move, then th...
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another....
The idea that the congressional Democrats have a responsibility for taking the national Democratic platform and program and trying to push it through the Congress is simply crazy. A political party at...
American troops stationed in the Philippines suppressed the native uprising that had followed the treaty. Known as the Philippine Insurrection, that conflict had erupted when the Filipinos learned, af...
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