If I am ever to be remembered, Johnson wistfully told me, it will be for civil rights.
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.
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...
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 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...
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...
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.
Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with 'fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier' to be 'the most educational asset' of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming presid...
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 ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
I’m giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
I want, freshman Senator Gale McGee wrote to Johnson, to take time to convey to you my deep personal appreciation for the committee assignments. Because of these appointments we freshmen have no alibi...
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
When you have worked with them, when you have lived with them, you do not have to wonder how they feel, because you feel it yourself.
The vice presidency ought to be abolished, he told his friend Leonard Wood. The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.
In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, he began, you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward. Bunyan’s muckraker, he suggested, typifies the man w...
Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well
We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interes...
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