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“Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match…

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“Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]”

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“Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just…

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“For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his…

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“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…

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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

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“Conservatives, he said, “are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.”

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“In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the…

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“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…

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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…

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“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…

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“As if toughening himself for the crisis to come, Roosevelt intensified his latest exercise routine, "singlesticks." Every evening in the residence, he and Leonard…

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“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

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