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"The subtitle tells it all. Samuel Seabury, nicknamed The Bishop by some New York City pols, did not become an Episcopal clergyman like generations of his forebears. He became a lawyer held in high esteem by both Roosevelts who became president, but h"
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“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.”
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
― 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”
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
― 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”
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
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