I don’t know that I will ever make a political speech again.” Would he care to qualify that statement? one reporter queried. “Yes,” Roosevelt laughingly said. “I won’t say never.
Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, “he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men.
The vice presidency “ought to be abolished,” he told his friend Leonard Wood. “The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, “armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
Refuse to let past resentments fester; transcend personal vendettas.
If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore “the fellow feeling, mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate for a common object.
Establish a clear purpose; challenge the team to work out details; traverse conventional departmental boundaries; set large short-term and long-term targets; create tangible success to generate accelerated growth and momentum.
She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
As S. S. McClure well understood, the “vitality of democracy” depends on “popular knowledge of complex questions.” At.
The only question now,” he said, “is which corpse gets the most flowers.
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 counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, “Landslide Lyndon” attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long.
There it was again: the entrance up the darkened ramp disclosing an expanse of amazing green, the fervent crowd contained in a stadium scaled to human dimensions, the players so close it almost seemed that you could touch them, the eccentric features of an old ballpark constructed to fit the contours of the allotted space. I.
The surest way to be happy,” Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, “is to seek happiness for others.
There is no one left; none but all of us.
What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?
Hearst’s papers and magazines” were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred “the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.
Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult’s rope.
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
When you have worked with them, when you have lived with them, you do not have to wonder how they feel, because you feel it yourself.
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.