Think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, Edith later wrote, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
That Roosevelt
Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading
No man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit.
Indefatigable
All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It was on the meaning of the Declara...
All his life he had endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.
Within the coming decade alone, three signal amendments would be added to the Constitution: the Sixteenth, giving the national government the power to levy a progressive income tax, without which many...
Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narrativ...
While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body.
When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling...
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.
We do not have to become heroes overnight, Eleanor once wrote. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strengt...
Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one’s little cares and difficulties disappear into nothing.
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...
Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with men who had previously opposed him; to rep...