Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,
I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
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.
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.
Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.
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.
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
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.
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.