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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife. - Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

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The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; his faith in the nation's limitless capacity; his tendency to evaluate all human activity in terms of its political significance; his insistence on translating every disruptive situation into one where bargaining was possible; his reliance on personal touch; his ability to speak to each of his constituent groups on its own terms. All these gifts, instead of sustaining him, now conspired to destroy him.
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People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
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I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
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Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
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The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater.
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According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
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Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.
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As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
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