“As if toughening himself for the crisis to come, Roosevelt intensified his latest exercise routine, "singlesticks." Every evening in the residence, he and Leonard Wood donned padded helmets and chest protectors and beat each other like carpets. "We look like… — 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 the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character. A random survey of his achievements might show him mastering German, French, and the contrasted dialects of Harvard and Dakota Territory; assembling fossil skeletons with… — Edmund Morris Copy Share
“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 struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such as Beethoven's remains illumined, or sees in the darkness shapes it never saw before, which inspire rather than terrify. This altered shape (raptus, he would… — Edmund Morris Copy Share
“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
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