Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.

But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the North and in the So...

This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wr...