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

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

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

I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell." Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his sp...

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

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

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

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

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

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

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

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

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

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 dr...

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

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

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

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 fo...

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

(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.

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

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

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

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

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

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

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