All the Great Prizes Quotes

“Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“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.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“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”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“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.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“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.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“He found Washington at once august and disgusting.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“was”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt