Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
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...
An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
After a quarter of a century in politics, Roosevelt observed, he had found that change was realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 200th step.
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 really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural...
Beneath Lincoln’s tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail, Abraham Lincoln said, without it nothing can succeed. Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see th...
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...
What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?
Washington
There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me, Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, but not one who will interest you more.
There is no one left; none but all of us.
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.
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...
Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading
When I read aloud, Lincoln later explained, two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I remember it better.
We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
There was a hush and everybody was holding their breath, Frances Perkins recalled. After what seemed a long-drawn moment of tension, he reached the rostrum, handed off his crutches, gripped the lecter...
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of his...