"Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."”

“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”

“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”

“Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.”

“There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.”

“Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.”

“Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.”

“Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.”