Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Y...et, given time, I think the press will bounce back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed... by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was... obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy,... no reward save a few dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »