More from The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

These are a couple of interesting quotes from The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 :

Once, in describing his method of executive leadership, Roosevelt remarked to a friend, “When I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. A good many . . . call me jumpy and say I go off half-cocked, when, as a matter of fact, I have really given full consideration to whatever it is that is to be done.”

In the autumn of 1904, with the situation on the Isthmus un...