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 »
There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellow...s, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very hea...lthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform--or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »