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.
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...
Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic,
Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible pa...
Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well
This was no dictator or Messiah holding forth. Franklin Roosevelt spoke in the name of the people for a resurgence of the strength of democracy, for a constitutional system capable of meeting every st...
Shortly before she left for New York, she received an unwelcome present from South Carolina—a painting depicting Lincoln with a rope around his neck, his feet chained and his body adorned with tar and...
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln rose with great and unaccustomed cheer to greet the final day of his life.
My reading was always a kind of living, he explained later, a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come...
Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.
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...
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...
I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
How children dance, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, to the unlived lives of their parents,
Hearst’s papers and magazines were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
He called me Bubbles, a pet name he had chosen, he told me, because I seemed to enjoy so many things. Anxious to confirm his description, I refused to let my enthusiasm wane, even when I grew tired or...
For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to changes and movements already under way. The worst, the le...
Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital o...