20 Quotes by John Taliaferro

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged

The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.