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His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.

We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.

Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations

The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned.

When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.

Don't hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the Dodgers.

I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.

The hand Wilson extended when the two men first met felt like a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper - irresponsive and lifeless.

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.

Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

The majority of the great fortunes were "won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.

Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading

Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind,

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.

The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.

morning I was at work in the Labor Department

How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents,

I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary

I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,

since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.

national press. He called them by their first names, invited them

Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic,

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.

we should look beyond our noses;

Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.

Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.

Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.

It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.

There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . .

In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

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.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

There is no one left; none but all of us.

I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

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.

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor

Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery

The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply.

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.

Roosevelt repeatedly brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;

He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.

The only question now," he said, "is which corpse gets the most flowers.

I've been to the White House a number of times.

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.

Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.

In order to "win a man to your cause," Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, "the great high road to his reason.