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His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
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Don't hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed.
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
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For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the Dodgers.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The hand Wilson extended when the two men first met felt like a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper - irresponsive and lifeless.
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
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Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers.
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Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.
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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.'
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People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading
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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind,
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Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
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I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,
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It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.
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It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.
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morning I was at work in the Labor Department
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How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents,
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There is no one left; none but all of us.
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Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.
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I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
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since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
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national press. He called them by their first names, invited them
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Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic,
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
— William Howard Taft
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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
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we should look beyond our noses;
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She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
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It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.
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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 . .
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In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
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She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.
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I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
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Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
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I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion.
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
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It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt repeatedly brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
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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.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
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The only question now," he said, "is which corpse gets the most flowers.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I've been to the White House a number of times.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.
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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
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We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging war on the railroads that ruled his state.
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An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin