20 Quotes by John Taliaferro

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.