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Roosevelt hated President Woodrow Wilson, considered him a disaster for the nation’s foreign policy, and was absolutely certain that Wilson’s naked idealism and mindless ambition would accomplish nothing to heal anyone’s wounds and might
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“Some influential planters in this state are talking of pulling away from the Davis government and petitioning Great Britain to make South Carolina a protectorate.”
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
“doughface—a Yankee with sympathy for the South.”
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
“By splitting the Republican vote, it is quite likely that Roosevelt is responsible for the election of the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, a historical footnote that Roosevelt would despise.”
― The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt
― The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt
“significant difference between the economic systems of the North and South was not in industry versus agriculture but in motivation. The free Yankee worked to better himself. The Southern slave worked to keep from being punished. That difference was slowly rotting the South from the inside.”
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
“just one thing is necessary for the triumph of wicked men, and that’s for good men to do nothing.”
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
― The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell
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