Avoid dull facts; create memorable images; translate every issue into people’s lives; use simple, everyday language; never use big words when small words will do. Simplify the concept that we are tryi...
Tolstoy went on to observe, This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great t...
Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward’s hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recentl...
Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations
Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.
York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: Mr. Roosevelt’s departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be, its chief interest lies in the...
More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination, displaying a fierce ambition, an exceptional political acumen, and a...
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Tolstoy went on to observe,This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great th...
The meanest man in the world, he remarked, is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.
Simon Cameron: I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life’s success—but he died bravely in the discharge of his...
The majority of the great fortunes were won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.
Regardless of one’s impressive title, power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.
What had become of the singular ascending ambition that had driven young Roosevelt from his earliest days? What explains his willingness, against the counsel of his most trusted friends, to accept see...
FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. Do not answer Bryan; attack him! he counseled in early September, adding, Don’t let him make the iss...
Everything, a journalist observed, tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs t...
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