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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
(John Quincy Adams, via Dense Discovery)
THIS BOOK is in part the story of that man, Lyndon Baines Johnson. He is not yet the thirty-sixth President of the United States, but a senator—at the beginning of the book, in 1949, the newly elected junior senator from Texas; then the Democratic Party’s Assistant Leader, then its Leader, and finally, in 1955, when the Democrats became the majorit
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
And with McKinley’s assassination, there was suddenly, in Theodore Roosevelt, a President who reformers felt was one of their own—their moral leader, in fact: the very embodiment of the popular will, of the spirit of reform, of Progressivism, was in the White House.
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
thunder”: Pennsylvania announced 44 votes for Lincoln, boosting his total to 181, only 3½ votes behind Seward’s new total of 1841/2.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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It’s not clear whether Lincoln recalled, or even had read, Adams’s message to Congress in 1825. Both shared, though, this central point: that “liberty is power,” and that “the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.”87 To that end, Lincoln