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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism QUOTES

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism QUOTES

1 " Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

2 " (Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

3 " 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 , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

4 " He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

5 " Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

6 " She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

7 " Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

8 " Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power? "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

9 " The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

10 " If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

11 " As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

12 " According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

13 " People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

14 " I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

15 " To find the best authors,” he boasted, “is like being able to tell good wine without the labels. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

16 " I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

17 " It is surprising,” Roosevelt explained, “how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

18 " My reading was always a kind of living,” he explained later, “a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come to know well and sometimes be friends with. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

19 " Roosevelt declared, arguing that “the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

20 " The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform. "

― Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism