“Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans… — Edmund Morris Roosevelt 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 Capitalism 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… — Edmund Morris Adventure 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… — Edmund Morris Regret 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… — Edmund Morris Humor Copy Share Image
“Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!” — Edmund Morris American family 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,… — Edmund Morris Change 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… — Edmund Morris Corruption 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… — 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,… — Edmund Morris Attractive 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… — Edmund Morris Love 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… — Edmund Morris Fitness 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… — Edmund Morris Respect 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… — Edmund Morris Foreign travel Copy Share Image
“Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones.”… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“What I cannot understand about the Russian,” Roosevelt complained, “is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and… — Edmund Morris Money Copy Share Image
There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism. — Edmund Morris Criticism Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt was at his most impassioned when commented on the sadistic quality of lynchings: There are certain hideous sights which when once… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.” — Edmund Morris Capital Copy Share Image
