“ Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. Edmund Morris
“ In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians w… Edmund Morris
“ Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his charac… Edmund Morris
“ He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or… Edmund Morris
“ [Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not unique: that he was not yearning to travel two thou… Edmund Morris
“ Norway...looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king. Edmund Morris
“ Roosevelt gazed around the library. A glint in his spectacles betrayed displeasure. Loeb came up inquiringly, and there was a whispered conversation in which the words newspapermen and sufficient room… Edmund Morris
“ [Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy. Edmund Morris
“ [Henry James] privately characterized Roosevelt as a dangerous and ominous jingo, and the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise. Edmund Morris
“ Let’s ask him, Lincoln Steffens suggested. The two men dashed across to headquarters and burst into Roosevelt’s office. Riis put the question directly. Was he working to be President? The effect, wrot… Edmund Morris
“ In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industr… Edmund Morris
“ For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I fee… Edmund Morris
“ [Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it. Edmund Morris
“ The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one specia… Edmund Morris
“ It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them. Edmund Morris
“ Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his… Edmund Morris
“ Theodore, [Theodore Sr] said, eschewing boyish nicknames, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body.… Edmund Morris
“ Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such… Edmund Morris
“ Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906] Edmund Morris
