With public sentiment, nothing can fail, Abraham Lincoln said, without it nothing can succeed.
There is no one left; none but all of us.
It’s a bully speech, encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
To find the best authors, he boasted, is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.
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...
Morning I was at work in the Labor Department
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,
Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.
For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and, he added, with a chuckle, say a special prayer for the Dodgers.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
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...
They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.
If I am ever to be remembered, Johnson wistfully told me, it will be for civil rights.
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
A thought to God is the right way to start off my Administration, he told them. It will be the means to bring us out of the depths of despair.
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...
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural...