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Quotes Suitable for Framing: Henry Adams

 

 

 

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt’s friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal. Roosevelt, more than any other man living within the range of notoriety, showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter,—the quality that mediæval theology assigned to God,—he was pure act.

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918)

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William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Saturday, February 18, AD 2017 7:15pm

Theodore Roosevelt, the Trump of his times.

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