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All good Americans wish to fight the representatives they have chosen. All good Englishmen wish to forget the representatives they have chosen.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
And with McKinley’s assassination, there was suddenly, in Theodore Roosevelt, a President who reformers felt was one of their own—their moral leader, in fact: the very embodiment of the popular will, of the spirit of reform, of Progressivism, was in the White House.
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The Court fight, as Garraty says, “marked the beginning of the end of the New Deal.” During the remaining seven years of Roosevelt’s Administration, Congress blocked every major new domestic law he proposed. One by one, the older Supreme Court justices resigned, and as Roosevelt filled their places, the Court moved steadily to the left. The lower
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The governorship of Richard Russell became one of the most significant periods in Georgia’s history. Taking office with the state broke, and with tax revenues so eroded by the Depression that it was unable to meet its obligations to public schools and public institutions or to pay the pensions it owed its veterans, he almost immediately secured
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Morgan’s famous testimony to Congress that character came before money or property.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
The Greatest Dangers Of The American Republics Proceed From The Unlimited Power Of The Majority
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Citizenship in a Republic: The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt @ LeadershipNow
"This is no savage country, my friend. But no men? Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
It is difficult to describe the rapacity with which the American rushes forward to secure the immense booty which fortune proffers to him. In the pursuit he fearlessly braves the arrow of the Indian and the distempers of the forest; he is unimpressed by the silence of the woods; the approach of beasts of prey does not disturb him; for he is goaded
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