Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside,
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...
With public sentiment, nothing can fail, Abraham Lincoln said, without it nothing can succeed.
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was not always easy to strike the just middle, and he inevitably made mistakes.
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...
Humility is the first and greatest of virtues.
Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.
Already
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
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...
Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.
Of bed rest. Thee feared that his son was
For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and, he added, with a chuckle, say a special prayer for the Dodgers.
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,...
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.
Nevertheless, no other speech proved so effective, none so full of character and none which found so responsive an audience. It carried everything before it, and old campaigners sighed that such energ...
If I am ever to be remembered, Johnson wistfully told me, it will be for civil rights.
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