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...
Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed.
They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper’s Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. In the early days, Fanny recalled, we all delighted i...
They were stealin’ votes in east Texas, Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, we were stealin’ votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it. But Jesus wasn’t...
There is no one left, McClure exhorted his readers as he cast about for a remedy to America’s woes at the turn of the twentieth century, none but all of us.
The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
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.
The key to Lincoln’s success was his uncanny ability to break down the most complex case or issue into its simplest elements. He never lost a jury by fumbling with or reading from a prepared argument,...
The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown greater than the State . . . and that the naked issue of...
It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.
His experience taught him what every party boss has understood through the ages: the practical machinery of the party organization—the distribution of ballots, the checklists, the rounding up of voter...
For recreation, Lincoln took up bowling with his fellow boarders. Though a clumsy bowler, according to Dr. Busey, Lincoln played the game with great zest and spirit and accepted success and defeat wit...
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.
Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
There was never any doubt that the local jury would return a guilty verdict. In due time, gentlemen of the jury, Seward concluded, when I shall have paid the debt of nature, my remains will rest here...
There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.
The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.
The history of governments, John Hay later observed, affords few instances of an official connection hallowed by a friendship so absolute and sincere as that which existed between these two magnanimou...
The choice of Blaine speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party, he ruefully continued. It may be that ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’ in fifty one cases out of a hundred;...