On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dare...d, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning s...unlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, I'm much happier here, really in it than I've been for an age. People don't hate much at the front; there's no one to hate,... except the poor devils across the way, whom they [the French soldiers] know to be as miserable as themselves. They don't talk hypocritical bosh about the beauty & manliness of war: they feel in their souls that if they weren't cowards they would have ended the thing long ago--by going home, where they want to be. And lastly and best, they don't jabber about atrocities--of course, everyone commits them--though about one story in a million that reaches our blessed Benighted States is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment--...the sober second thought--of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had many problems in my conduct of the office being contrasted with President Kennedy's conduct in the office, with my manner of... dealing with things and his manner, with my accent and his accent, with my background and his background. He was a great public hero, and anything I did that someone didn't approve of, they would always feel that President Kennedy wouldn't have done that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that ...didn't have anything to do with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes... Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,... An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »