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...
Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.
Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln’s mind,
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...
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...
Attempting to circumvent this declaration, Hunter recalled that Charles I of England had entered repeatedly into arrangements with his adversaries despite ongoing hostilities. I do not profess to be p...
If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.
Refuse to let past resentments fester; transcend personal vendettas.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln rose with great and unaccustomed cheer to greet the final day of his life.
Our party, he declared, stands for the right of property and the right of liberty, for institutions that have stood the test of time, and for an economic system that rewards energy, courage, enterpris...
—The Dallas Morning
Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic,
THE SUMMER OF 1863 marked a crucial transformation in the Union war effort—the organization and deployment of black regiments that would eventually amount to 180,000 soldiers, a substantial proportion...
Momentum is not a mysterious mistress, Johnson liked to say. It is a controllable fact of political life that depends on nothing more exotic than preparation.
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...
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.
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...
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