Michael Wolraich > Quotes

“the one hand, awed that the world’s great powers had privileged their young nation with so much pomp and finery, on the other hand, boastful of their contrasting republican simplicity.”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.”45”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of those interests.”23”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“There is more eloquence in the testimony of an illiterate witness telling of oppression suffered, than in the greatest sermon or editorial or address ever written.”
― Michael Wolraich, The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

“When the natural resources of any nation become exhausted,” he warned, “disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course.”2”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“Enthusiasm, Cannon observed, requires a fight, and the delegates simply had nothing to fight about.”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics

“temporary defeat often results in a more decided and lasting victory than one which is too easily achieved.”49”
― Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics