Magnanimity
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...
The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home an...
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...
I’m giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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...
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.
When Prince Napoleon, the cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte III, visited Washington in early August, Mary organized an elaborate dinner party. She found the task of entertaining much simpler than it had be...
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...
So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.
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...
I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,
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.
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...
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...
We should look beyond our noses;