Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s Mars, eventually became secretary
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Still, Roosevelt noted, it was not always easy to strike the just middle, and he inevitably made mistakes.
Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside,
It is surprising, Roosevelt explained, how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.
To find the best authors, he boasted, is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only t...
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
Humility is the first and greatest of virtues.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail, Abraham Lincoln said, without it nothing can succeed.
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning fo...
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me,...
Alacrity,
Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.
Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and, he added, with a chuckle, say a special prayer for the Dodgers.
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me r...