“[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 thousand miles on bad trains to support… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]” — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“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… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!” — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Conservatives, he said, “are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.” — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“The Kaiser was enough of a man to stand a tough, confidential message--and enough of a woman, presumably, to retreat if it could be… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“As if toughening himself for the crisis to come, Roosevelt intensified his latest exercise routine, "singlesticks." Every evening in the residence, he and Leonard… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat,… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
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