Theodore Roosevelt said...

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Washington,...

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...