When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and...
They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.
The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted...
Roosevelt reasoned, if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered. That post was the one he desired above all others, even a se...
Once Roosevelt had agreed to be drafted and assumed the responsibility of running for governor, he was in it for keeps. When you’re in politics you have to play the game, he told a friend.
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 he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
If I am ever to be remembered, Johnson wistfully told me, it will be for civil rights.
I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilit...
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Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln’s mind,
The former slave told his audience that there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
I’m giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I knelt on the small worn bench, I could hear a boy's halting confession through the w...
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.
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