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n the line of which it has accomplished, as I believe, much for the prosperity of this country. I believe the Republican party is pledged and ought to be pledged to the doctrine of the protection of American industries and American labor. I believe that in so far as our native inventive genius—which seems to have no li... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.782 | 0.846 | ["governance", "economy"] | 417 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258051 | [
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n [23] market, we ought to keep it for ourselves. And yet this new captain on the bridge seems to congratulate himself on the fact that the voyage is still prosperous notwithstanding the change of commanders; who seems to forget that the reason that the voyage is still prosperous is because the course of the ship was m... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.892 | ["philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258079 | [
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view of changing the sailing course of the old craft, but it has seemed to me that he has made the mistake of mistaking the flashlight of some British lighthouse for the light of day. I do not intend here to-night in this presence to discuss this tariff question in any detail. I only want to say that in the passage of ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.896 | ["war_conflict"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258100 | [
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ere has come to this country a prosperity and development which would have been impossible without it, and that reversal of this policy now, at the suggestion of Mr. Cleveland, according to the line of the blind statesman from Texas, would be to stay and interrupt this march of prosperity on which we have entered. I am... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.878 | [] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258119 | [
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ympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seems to me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the coat. I believe it is true to-day that we have many things in this country that are too cheap, because whenever it is proved that the man or woman who produces any article cannot get a decent living ou... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.896 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258138 | [
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have proclaimed a policy, or which we must meet in the near future. I am only here to-night briefly to sketch to you the magnificent career of this party to which we give our allegiance—a union of the States, restored, cemented, regenerated; a Constitution cleansed of its compromises with slavery and brought into harmo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.718 | ["negotiation", "career", "governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258162 | [
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] fill all the streams of the South with prosperity, and demanding only that the terms of the surrender at Appomattox shall be complied with. When that magnificent act of clemency was witnessed, when those sublime and gracious words were uttered by General Grant at Appomattox, the country applauded. We said to those mi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.876 | ["governance", "family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258182 | [
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de." We ask nothing more, but we cannot quietly submit to the fact, while it is true everywhere in the United States that the man who fought for years against his country is allowed the full, free, unrestricted exercise of his new citizenship, when it shall not also be true everywhere that every man who followed Lincol... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.647 | 0.716 | ["war_conflict", "social_justice"] | 467 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258203 | [
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k : Doubleday Publishing Group Collection marygrovecollege ; internetarchivebooks ; americana ; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.7G 888 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm A sweeping biography of the life and political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival... | https://archive.org/details/traitortohisclas0000bran | Traitor to his class : the privileged life and radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Brands, H. W., author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | archive.org | 0.66 | 0.698 | ["leadership", "career", "interview", "war_conflict", "family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.266411 | [
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ROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LETTERS OF FRANKLIN K. LANE, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL *** This etext was produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE LETTERS OF FRANKLIN K. LANE Personal and Political EDITED BY ANNE WINTERMUTE LANE AND LOUISE HERRICK WALL WITH ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.866 | ["management"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268692 | [
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ts of the country, we have attempted, in this volume, to select chiefly those letters which tell the story of Franklin K. Lane's life as it unfolded itself in service to his country which was his passion. A few technical letters have been included, because they represent some incomplete and original phases of the work ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.625 | 0.85 | [] | 447 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268737 | [
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that usually is given only to private enterprise. In editing his letters we have omitted much, but we have in no way changed anything that he wrote. Even where, in his haste, there has been an obvious slip of the pen, we have left it. Owing to his dictating to many stenographers, with their varying methods of punctuati... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268768 | [
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fore some engagement, we found in them no uniformity of punctuation. In writing hastily he used only a frequent dash and periods; these letters we have made agree with those which were more formally written. With the oncoming of war his correspondence enormously increased— the more demanded of him, the more he seemed a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.864 | ["philosophy", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268800 | [
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rts, appointments as chaplains, promotions, demands from artists who desired to work on camouflage, farmers and chemists who wished exemption, requests for appointments to the War Department; letters asking for every kind of a position from that of night- watchman to that of Brigadier-General. For his friends, and even... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.645 | 0.846 | ["war_conflict"] | 447 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268828 | [
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terest in them. One of his secretaries, Joseph J. Cotter, a man he greatly trusted, in describing his office work says: "Whatever was of human interest, interested Mr. Lane. His researches were by no means limited to the Department of the Interior. For instance, I remember that at one time, before the matter had been g... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.878 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268852 | [
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went with him into the question of the number of ships it would take to transport our soldiers to the other side. And as a result of this conference, a plan was laid before the Secretary of War. I remember this particularly because it necessitated my looking up dead-weight tonnage, and other matters, with which I was e... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.868 | ["war_conflict"] | 483 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268879 | [
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t through repeated interruptions. I have seen Mr. Lane, when interrupted in the middle of an involved sentence of dictation, talk on some other subject for five or ten minutes and return to his dictation, taking it up where he left it and completing the sentence so that it could be typed as dictated, and this without t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.872 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268903 | [
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d was engaged on some personal, political, or philosophical problem, his thought turned naturally to that friend with whom he would most like to discuss the subject, and, if he could possibly make the time, to him he wrote just what thoughts raced through his mind. To Ambassador Page he wrote in 1918, "I have a very ol... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.732 | ["diplomacy", "faith_spirituality"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268928 | [
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friends their impressions and their spirit in the same way." And in another letter he says, "Now I have gossiped, and preached, and prophesied, and mourned, and otherwise revealed what passes through a wandering mind in half an hour, so I send you at the close of this screed, my blessing, which is a poor gift." At home... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.825 | 0.862 | ["faith_spirituality", "family"] | 454 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268954 | [
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enty pages in length and some mere scrappy notes. He wrote with a pencil on a pad on his knee, rapidly stripping off the sheets for me to read, in his desire to share all that was his, even his innermost thoughts. To the many correspondents who have generously returned to me their letters, and with no restrictions as t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.89 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268976 | [
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hose received, deeply as I have regretted the necessity of omitting any of them. In making these acknowledgments I wish especially to thank John H. Wigmore, since to him we owe all the early letters— the only ones covering that period. For possible future use I shall be grateful for any letters that I have not already ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.874 | [] | 479 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.268997 | [
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pe that the error will be called to my attention. Anne Wintermute Lane March, 1922 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION Youth—Education—Characteristics II. POLITICS AND JOURNALISM. 1884-1894 Politics—Newspaper Work—New York—Buying into Tacoma News —Marriage—Sale of Newspaper LETTERS: To John H. Wigmore To John H. Wigmore To John H... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.639 | 0.688 | ["governance", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269021 | [
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ow Wilson. To Alexander Vogelsang. To Frederic J. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To R. M. Fitzgerald. To James K. Moffitt. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To Roland Cotton Smith. To James H. Barry. IX. CABINET TALK AND WAR PLANS. 1917 Cabinet Meetings—National Council of Defense—Bernstorff—War—Plan for Railroad Consolidation—U-Boat ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.644 | 0.716 | ["war_conflict"] | 507 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269065 | [
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W. Lane. To Edward J. Wheeler. To George W. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To George W. Lane. To George W. Lane. To Frank I. Cobb. To Will Irwin. To Robert Lansing. To Henry Lane Eno. To George B. Dorr. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To John O'H. Cosgrave. X. CABINET NOTES IN WAR-TIME. 1918 Notes on Cabinet M... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.625 | 0.72 | ["war_conflict", "governance", "education"] | 506 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269089 | [
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. Lane. To C. S. Jackson. To John Crawford Burns. To Frank I. Cobb. To Mrs. Louise Herrick Wall. To Mrs. M. A. Andersen. To George W. Lane. To Daniel J. O'Neill. To Hamlin Garland. To Hugo K. Asher. To Admiral Gary Grayson. To Herbert C. Pell, Jr. To Hon. Woodrow Wilson. To Frank W. Mondell. To Robert W. De Forest. XII... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.396 | 0.716 | ["leadership"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269112 | [
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jamin Ide Wheeler. To Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. To Lathrop Brown. To Timothy Spellacy. To Frank I. Cobb. To John G. Gehring. To John W. Hallowell. To John G. Gehring. XIII. LETTERS TO ELIZABETH. 1919-1920 LETTERS: To Mrs. Ralph Ellis. XIV. FRIENDS AND THE GREAT HOPE. 1921 Need for Democratic Program—Religious Faith—M... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.701 | 0.706 | ["crisis", "faith_spirituality", "education"] | 508 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269136 | [
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fmann. To Benjamin Ide Wheeler. To Lathrop Brown. To Mrs. George Ehle. To Mrs. William Phillips. To James H. Barry. To Michael A. Spellacy. To William R. Wheeler. To V. C. Scott O'Connor. Letter sent to several friends. To John G. Gehring. To Lathrop Brown. To Lathrop Brown. To Adolph C. Miller. To John G. Gehring. To ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.642 | 0.73 | [] | 509 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269155 | [
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To James H. Barry. To Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. To friends who had telegraphed and written for news.—"I accept." To Alexander Vogelsang. To John W. Hallowell. To Robert Lansing. Fragment. ILLUSTRATIONS FRANKLIN K. LANE FRANKLIN K. LANE With his younger brothers, George and Frederic. FRANKLIN K. LANE At eighteen. FRAN... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.694 | 0.69 | [] | 436 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269174 | [
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Philip C. Kauffmann). THE LETTERS OF FRANKLIN K. LANE I INTRODUCTION Youth—Education—Characteristics Although Franklin Knight Lane was only fifty-seven years old when he died, May 18, 1921, he had outlived, by many years, the men and women who had most influenced the shaping of his early life. Of his mother he wrote, i... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.312 | 0.838 | ["family", "education"] | 424 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269196 | [
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ring of this world grows altogether inexplicable. … It requires far more religion or philosophy than I have, to say a real word that might console one who has lost those who are dear to him. Ten years ago my mother died, and I have never been reconciled to her loss." Again he wrote of her, to his sister, when their bro... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.886 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 493 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269220 | [
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uld be there with him, though I could do no good. … Each night I pray for him, and I am so much of a Catholic, that I pray to the only Saint I know, or ever knew, and ask her to help. If she lives, her mind can reach the minds of the doctors. … I don't need her to intercede with God, but I would like her to intercede w... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.822 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269243 | [
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m childhood, no word of him is left, and none from the two men whose strength and ideality colored his morning at the University of California—Dr. George H. Howison, the "darling Howison" of the William James' Letters, and Dr. Joseph H. Le Conte, the wise and gentle geologist. "Names that were Sierras along my skyline,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.88 | ["education"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269263 | [
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iven me more real pleasure than yours, and no man has been more of an inspiration than you." The sealing of almost every source of intimate knowledge of the boy, who was a mature man at twenty-two, has left the record of the early period curiously scant. Fortunately, there are in his letters and speeches some casual al... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.358 | 0.868 | ["education", "motivation", "family", "rhetoric"] | 481 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269285 | [
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school, college, and early newspaper associates. In 1888, the story begins to gather form and coherence, for at that date we have the first of his own letters that have been preserved, written to his lifelong friend, John H. Wigmore. With many breaks, especially in the early chapters, the sequence of events, and his mo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.582 | 0.842 | ["war_conflict", "education", "philosophy"] | 422 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269306 | [
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thirty-foot hedge of hawthorn blooms each spring. His father, Christopher S. Lane, was at the time of his son's birth a preacher. Later, when his voice was affected by recurrent bronchitis, he became a dentist. Lane speaks of him several times in his letters as a Presbyterian, and alludes to the strict orthodoxy of his... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.874 | ["family", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269326 | [
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office, Lane wrote to his brother, "To-night we give a dinner to the Canadians, Sir George Foster, the acting Premier, and Sir Joseph Polk, the Under-Secretary of External Affairs, who, by the way, was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and says that he heard our father preach." But it was from his mother, wh... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.627 | 0.712 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 470 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269349 | [
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ranklin Lane was asked how he became an American. "By virtue of my father's citizenship," he replied, "I have been a resident of California since seven years of age, excepting during a brief absence in New York and Washington." In 1871, the mother, father, and four children, after visiting two brothers of Mrs. Lane's o... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.872 | ["family", "philosophy", "ethics", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269370 | [
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o was large for his age and quite stout, looked already too old for this style," and so continued to be annoyed by the children, until he put a forcible end to it. "He 'licked' one of the ringleaders," says the chronicler, and won to peace. "As we grew to know Franklin … his right to act became accepted … . There was a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.884 | ["family", "leadership", "diplomacy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269390 | [
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with that pleasant harmony of voices of one timbre, heard only in family singing. Lane had a baritone of stirring quality, coming straight from his big lungs, and loved music all his life. In the last weeks of his life he more than once wrote of his pleasure in his brother's singing. At Rochester, a few days before his... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.882 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269411 | [
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e and loyalty to past ties, though great and persistent, still left his ideal of loyalty unsatisfied. Toward the end of his life he wrote, "Roots we all have and we must not be torn up from them and flung about as if we were young things that could take hold in any soil. I have been—America has been—too indifferent to ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["war_conflict", "economy", "family", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269432 | [
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of his life were directed toward creating means to modify tradition in favor of a larger sort of justice than the past had known. Resignation had no part in his political creed. "I hold with old Cicero 'that the whole glory of virtue is in activity,'" comes from him with the ring of authentic temperament. And of a frie... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.854 | ["philosophy", "ethics", "war_conflict", "social_justice"] | 450 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269454 | [
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ool. Again his schoolmates recall him with gusto. He was muscular in build, "a good short-distance runner." His hands— always very characteristic of the man—were large and well-made, strong to grasp but not adroit in the smaller crafts of tinkering. "He impressed me," an Oakland schoolmate writes, "as a sturdy youngste... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.864 | ["education", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269474 | [
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1917, in connection with improvements for the new National Park, near Bar Harbor, "A wilderness, no matter how impressive or beautiful does not satisfy this soul of mine (if I have that kind of a thing). It is a challenge to man. It says, 'Master me! Put me to use! Make me more than I am!'" About his "need of a world o... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.83 | 0.804 | ["crisis", "networking", "faith_spirituality", "family", "philosophy"] | 500 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269497 | [
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d a word to you. … The world is all people to me. I lean upon them. They induce thought and fancy. They give color to my life. Thrown on myself I am a stranded bark."… His love for cooperation and for action, "dramatic action," some one says, never left him. In his last illness, in apolitical crisis, he rallied the ene... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.896 | ["crisis"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269517 | [
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p the plan and ask them what they think of it—tentatively—just a quiet chat, but START!" And about the same matter he wrote, "The time has come. Now strike!" To a friend wavering over her fitness for a piece of projected work, he said drily, "There is only one way to do a thing, and that is to do it." Late in life, the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.579 | 0.896 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269534 | [
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ifists." And words, written and spoken words, were to him, of course, the instrument of conquest. But the search for the fit and shining word for his mark did not become research. In a droll letter, about how he put simpler English into the Department of the Interior, he tells of finding a letter written by one of the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.888 | ["governance", "economy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269555 | [
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or the Alta California, edited by Colonel John P. Irish, himself a fiery orator, of the denunciatory type. Colonel Irish recalls that he was at once impressed with the "copious and excellent vocabulary" of his ambitious reporter, who was, even then, he says, "determined upon a high and useful career." In a letter to Co... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.351 | 0.844 | ["career"] | 412 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269574 | [
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ple little card of yours was a good thing for me. It took me for a minute out of the maelstrom of pressing business and carried me back, about thirty years, to the time when I was a boy working for you—an unbaked, ambitious chap, who did not know where he was going, but was trying to get somewhere." It is interesting t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.801 | 0.86 | [] | 414 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269591 | [
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he was chilled to the heart by this indifference. He remembered the episode all his life with emotion, but he was not embittered by it. He was young, a great lover, greatly in love with life. [Illustration with caption: FRANKLIN K. LANE AT EIGHTEEN] In 1884, when he entered the University of California, it was as a spe... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.751 | 0.888 | ["education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269637 | [
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after hours, and I am very glad I did it." He seems to have arranged all his college courses for the mornings and carried his reporting and printing-office work the last half of the day. College at once offered a great forum for debate, and a richer comradeship with men of strong mental fiber. Lane's eagerness in discu... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.882 | [] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269664 | [
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Pick a few enemies and pick them with discretion. Chiefly be FOR things." To a man who was making a personal attack on an adversary of Lane's, while in 1914, as Secretary of the Interior, he was engrossed in establishing his "conservation-by-use" policy, in opposition to the older and narrower policy of conservation by... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.603 | 0.846 | ["war_conflict"] | 435 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269728 | [
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ove of efficiency and also in his sense of humor. During this same hot conservation controversy he writes to an old friend, "I have no intention of saying anything in reply to Pinchot. He wrote me thirty pages to prove that I was a liar, and rather than read that again I will admit the fact." This preoccupation with th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.804 | 0.864 | [] | 439 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269783 | [
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he urges, "must be translated into the possible. Man cannot live by bread alone—nor on manna." His gay and challenging attitude toward life expressed only one mood, for he paid, as men must, for intense buoyancy of temper by black despairs. "Damn that Irish temperament, anyway!" he writes. "O God, that I had been made ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.396 | 0.866 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269811 | [
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s and tolerant analysis of characters and events. Even his loyalty to his friends was subject to the slight magnetic deflections of a man of moods. He was true to them as the needle to the pole; and with just the same piquing oscillations, before the needle comes to rest at the inevitable North. Because he had caught, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.63 | 0.872 | [] | 499 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269835 | [
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thin his breast, without fear of misconstruction. He contrived to humanize, in parts, even his government reports. They brought him, year by year, touching letters of gratitude from weary political writers. The patient, logical Scot in him that said, "I am going to take this thing up bit by bit without trying to get a ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.639 | 0.878 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269863 | [
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and desires lighted the way with gleams of Will-o'-the-Wisp. The quicksilver in the veins of the patient Mercutio of railroad rates and demurrage charges lightened his work for himself and others. Just as in the five years when he served San Francisco, as City and County Attorney, he labored to such effect that not one... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.884 | ["economy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269894 | [
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ient with those who were merely dull, evading no drudgery, and, above all, never evading the dear pains of building-up and maintaining friendship. LOUISE HERRICK WALL MARCH, 1922 II POLITICS AND JOURNALISM 1884-1894 POLITICS—NEWSPAPER WORK—NEW YORK—BUYING INTO TACOMA NEWS— MARRIAGE—SALE OF NEWSPAPER FRANKLIN K. LANE'S ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.623 | 0.846 | ["innovation", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 508 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269952 | [
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of newspaper writers and college undergraduates. The short career of the Municipal Reform League ended when Wigmore went East to study law, leaving Lane determined to increase his efficiency by earning his way through college and the Hastings Law School. The first letters of this volume follow the theme of the politica... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.874 | ["governance", "education", "innovation", "career", "social_justice"] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.269986 | [
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f the world myself, and this is what I especially wanted to write you about. I desire to see the world, to rub off some of my provincialisms, to broaden a little before I settle down to a prosaic existence. So, as I say, I want to live in Boston awhile and my only possibility of so doing is to get a position on some Bo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.886 | [] | 473 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.270028 | [
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fe. However I don't care much what the billet is. I can bring letters of recommendation from all the good newspaper men in San Francisco, both as to my ability at editorial work (I have done considerable for the San Francisco NEWS LETTER and EXAMINER), and at all kinds of reportorial work. … I passed the law examinatio... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.866 | ["governance"] | 465 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.270058 | [
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have not determined definitely on going into law. … Politically speaking we Mugwumps out here are happy. … California has been opposed to Cleveland on every one of his great proposals (civil service reform, silver question, tariff reform), and yet the Republicans must nominate a very strong man to get this State this y... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.395 | 0.878 | ["philosophy", "innovation", "governance", "social_justice", "communication"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.270088 | [
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rtues mixed happily in a candidate they grow to love and admire him out of the very idealism of their natures. But I must not bother the Boston attorney any longer. Write me all you know of opportunities there and believe me always your friend, FRANK K. LANE TO JOHN B. WIGMORE Oakland, May 9, 1888 MY DEAR WIGMORE,—Of c... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.845 | 0.866 | ["interview", "philosophy"] | 453 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.270117 | [
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more than any other class, are rated by ability. Civil Service Reform principles rule in every good newspaper office to their fullest extent. When I wrote you, I was unsettled as to my plans for the coming year. My brother desired to spend a year or so in Boston and I thought of accompanying him. He has changed his pla... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4206/pg4206-images.html | The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.852 | ["innovation", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 415 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.270146 | [
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dated: December 17, 2012 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEODORE ROOSEVELT *** Produced by Dagny; John Bickers; David Widger THEODORE ROOSEVELT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT By Theodore Roosevelt PREPARER'S NOTE This Etext was prepared from a 1920... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.852 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279374 | [
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I CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER VIII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII APPENDIX CHAPTER XIV APPENDIX CHAPTER XV APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C FOREWORD Naturally, there are chapters of my autobiography which cannot no... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.728 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279425 | [
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ommon obligation to the children that are theirs. There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of shirking the hard work of the world, and at the same time delight in the many-sided beauty of life. With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.807 | 0.874 | ["war_conflict", "decision_making", "faith_spirituality", "family", "philosophy"] | 475 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279467 | [
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ible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand. With gentleness and tenderness there must go dauntless bravery and grim acceptance of labor and ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.884 | ["war_conflict", "economy"] | 500 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279504 | [
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maintain himself as not to be a burden to others. We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and yet we must judge ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.744 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279533 | [
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and vicious envy which hates and would plunder a man because he is well off and on the brutal and selfish arrogance which looks down on and exploits the man with whom life has gone hard. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. SAGAMORE HILL, October 1, 1913. THEODORE ROOSEVELT CHAPTER I BOYHOOD AND YOUTH My grandfather on my father's side... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.886 | ["family", "innovation", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 506 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279565 | [
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son every one of us was born on Manhattan Island. My father's paternal ancestors were of Holland stock; except that there was one named Waldron, a wheelwright, who was one of the Pilgrims who remained in Holland when the others came over to found Massachusetts, and who then accompanied the Dutch adventurers to New Amst... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.58 | 0.876 | ["family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279597 | [
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me to Pennsylvania a little later, early in the eighteenth century. My grandmother was a woman of singular sweetness and strength, the keystone of the arch in her relations with her husband and sons. Although she was not herself Dutch, it was she who taught me the only Dutch I ever knew, a baby song of which the first ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.894 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279628 | [
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ettlers, not a few of whom knew it, although at first they always had difficulty in understanding my pronunciation—at which I do not wonder. It was interesting to meet these men whose ancestors had gone to the Cape about the time that mine went to America two centuries and a half previously, and to find that the descen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.623 | 0.704 | ["crisis", "family"] | 430 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279660 | [
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children some at least of the same nursery songs. Of my great-grandfather Roosevelt and his family life a century and over ago I know little beyond what is implied in some of his books that have come down to me—the Letters of Junius, a biography of John Paul Jones, Chief Justice Marshall's "Life of Washington." They se... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.876 | ["family", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279689 | [
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volumes as the original Edinburgh Review , for we have them now on our own book-shelves. Of my grandfather Roosevelt my most vivid childish reminiscence is not something I saw, but a tale that was told me concerning him. In his boyhood Sunday was as dismal a day for small Calvinistic children of Dutch descent as if the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.88 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279722 | [
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stors, and proud that the blood of that stark Puritan divine Jonathan Edwards flows in the veins of his children. One summer afternoon, after listening to an unusually long Dutch Reformed sermon for the second time that day, my grandfather, a small boy, running home before the congregation had dispersed, ran into a par... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.876 | ["family", "innovation", "war_conflict", "social_justice", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279752 | [
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ull speed through the midst of the outraged congregation. By the way, one of the Roosevelt documents which came down to me illustrates the change that has come over certain aspects of public life since the time which pessimists term "the earlier and better days of the Republic." Old Isaac Roosevelt was a member of an A... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.858 | ["governance"] | 454 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279780 | [
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offee for 8 Gentlemen 1:12:0 " Music fees &ca 8: 0:0 " Fruit & Nuts 5: 0:0 156:10:0 By Cash . . . 100:16:0 55:14:0 WE a Committee of Council having examined the above account do certify it (amounting to one hundred and fifty-six Pounds ten Shillings) to be just. December 17th 1783. ISAAC ROOSEVELT JAS. DUANE EGBT. BENS... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.888 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279810 | [
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esult of the drinking of said bottles of wine and bowls of punch, it is recorded that eight cut-glass decanters and sixty wine-glasses were broken. During the Revolution some of my forefathers, North and South, served respectably, but without distinction, in the army, and others rendered similar service in the Continen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.379 | 0.86 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "family"] | 486 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279841 | [
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ants, and those who dwelt in the South, planters. My mother's people were predominantly of Scotch, but also of Huguenot and English, descent. She was a Georgian, her people having come to Georgia from South Carolina before the Revolution. The original Bulloch was a lad from near Glasgow, who came hither a couple of cen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.378 | 0.86 | ["family"] | 476 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279869 | [
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f the globe in the intervening two hundred years. My mother's great-grandfather, Archibald Bulloch, was the first Revolutionary "President" of Georgia. My grandfather, her father, spent the winters in Savannah and the summers at Roswell, in the Georgia uplands near Atlanta, finally making Roswell his permanent home. He... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.623 | 0.834 | ["family"] | 430 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279899 | [
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in his own carriage, followed by a baggage wagon. I never saw Roswell until I was President, but my mother told me so much about the place that when I did see it I felt as if I already knew every nook and corner of it, and as if it were haunted by the ghosts of all the men and women who had lived there. I do not mean m... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.826 | 0.792 | ["family"] | 458 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279928 | [
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s children all kinds of stories about the slaves. One of the most fascinating referred to a very old darky called Bear Bob, because in the early days of settlement he had been partially scalped by a black bear. Then there was Mom' Grace, who was for a time my mother's nurse, and whom I had supposed to be dead, but who ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.86 | ["family"] | 422 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279958 | [
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le, and apparently with years of life before her. The two chief personages of the drama that used to be repeated to us were Daddy Luke, the Negro overseer, and his wife, Mom' Charlotte. I never saw either Daddy Luke or Mom' Charlotte, but I inherited the care of them when my mother died. After the close of the war they... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.88 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 478 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.279986 | [
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annually to get a new "critter," that is, a mule. With a certain lack of ingenuity the mule was reported each Christmas as having passed away, or at least as having become so infirm as to necessitate a successor—a solemn fiction which neither deceived nor was intended to deceive, but which furnished a gauge for the siz... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.884 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280018 | [
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was portable was taken by the boys in blue, including most of the books in the library. When I was President the facts about my ancestry were published, and a former soldier in Sherman's army sent me back one of the books with my grandfather's name in it. It was a little copy of the poems of "Mr. Gray"—an eighteenth-ce... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.894 | ["war_conflict", "family", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280046 | [
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ed during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children. It was furnished in the canonical taste of the New York which George William Curtis described in the Potiphar Papers . The black haircloth furniture in the dining-room scratched the bare legs of the children when they sat on it. The middle... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.846 | 0.862 | ["family"] | 461 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280073 | [
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hout windows, and so was available only at night. The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties. The Sunday evening family gathering was the redeeming feature in a day which otherwise we c... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.622 | 0.852 | ["family"] | 417 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280103 | [
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l of us made to wear clean clothes and keep neat. The ornaments of that parlor I remember now, including the gas chandelier decorated with a great quantity of cut-glass prisms. These prisms struck me as possessing peculiar magnificence. One of them fell off one day, and I hastily grabbed it and stowed it away, passing ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.826 | 0.86 | [] | 455 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280128 | [
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at I would be found out and convicted of larceny. There was a Swiss wood-carving representing a very big hunter on one side of an exceedingly small mountain, and a herd of chamois, disproportionately small for the hunter and large for the mountain, just across the ridge. This always fascinated us; but there was a small... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.648 | 0.876 | [] | 483 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280153 | [
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ik drawing a gilt sledge on a piece of malachite. Some one mentioned in my hearing that malachite was a valuable marble. This fixed in my mind that it was valuable exactly as diamonds are valuable. I accepted that moujik as a priceless work of art, and it was not until I was well in middle age that it occurred to me th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.896 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280180 | [
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rner of Fourteenth Street and Broadway, fronting Union Square. Inside there was a large hall running up to the roof; there was a tessellated black-and-white marble floor, and a circular staircase round the sides of the hall, from the top floor down. We children much admired both the tessellated floor and the circular s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.874 | ["family"] | 490 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280207 | [
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in the country, now at one place, now at another. We children, of course, loved the country beyond anything. We disliked the city. We were always wildly eager to get to the country when spring came, and very sad when in the late fall the family moved back to town. In the country we of course had all kinds of pets—cats,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.892 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280237 | [
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ay, she was much struck by the coincidence that some one should have given him the same name as the pony. (Thirty years later my own children had their pony Grant.) In the country we children ran barefoot much of the time, and the seasons went by in a round of uninterrupted and enthralling pleasures—supervising the hay... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.864 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280269 | [
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patient parents, building wigwams in the woods, and sometimes playing Indians in too realistic manner by staining ourselves (and incidentally our clothes) in liberal fashion with poke-cherry juice. Thanksgiving was an appreciated festival, but it in no way came up to Christmas. Christmas was an occasion of literally de... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.862 | ["family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280298 | [
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ooped in to open them while sitting on father's and mother's bed; and the bigger presents were arranged, those for each child on its own table, in the drawing-room, the doors to which were thrown open after breakfast. I never knew any one else have what seemed to me such attractive Christmases, and in the next generati... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.824 | 0.856 | ["family"] | 438 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280327 | [
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Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us children selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice, or untruthfulness. As we grew older he made us understand that the same standard of clean living was ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.622 | 0.844 | ["war_conflict", "family", "philosophy"] | 419 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280357 | [
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