Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.
Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.
It was Andrew Jackson’s motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.
If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a mo...
I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.
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 nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson’s domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a co...
FDR, even weakened and near the end of his life, opted to allow disabled veterans to see his true condition. This allowed them to understand the life which could still be before them.
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...
Don’t hit till you have to, but, when you do hit, hit hard.
By anchoring his arguments firmly in history and law, he opened an antislavery approach that differed from the tactics of the allies of Garrison, who eschewed political organization, dismissed the fou...
From John Hay's diary) The President never appeared to better advantage in the world, Hay proudly noted in his diary. Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of...
All his life he had endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.
When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper, she recalled, and then he would rewrite it and keep it in a scr...
When asked years later why Lincoln had won, he said: The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.
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...
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.