“a political ascent …”: Morris, The Rise, 169.
“a very desolate …”: Brands, T.R., 153.
“I am now …”: Brands, T.R., 155.
“Of course I …” “Hurrah! The luck …” and “This has been …”: Brands, T.R., 158.
“the romance of …”: Morris, The Rise, 200.
“There is a curse …”: Morris, The Rise, 229.
“Theodore is in …”: Morris, The Rise, 231.
“For joy or …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 89.
“I shall go …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 90.
“Tammany Defeated: Mr… .”: Morris, The Rise, 221.
“I have very …”: Morris, The Rise, 248.
“I am going …”: Morris, The Rise, 259.
CHAPTER 4
“far off from …”: Morris, The Rise, 259.
“Having a glorious …”: Brands, T.R., 172.
“I wear a …”: Brands, T.R., 173.
“defective moral character”: Harbaugh, Power, 48.
“When I went …”: Morris, The Rise, 295.
“Hasten forward quickly there”: Harbaugh, Power, 49.
“a purty rider”: Harbaugh, Power, 48.
“I have been three …”: Brands, T.R., 189.
“Four eyes is …” and “Well if I’ve …”: Harbaugh, Power, 48.
“Cocking my rifle …”: Brands, T.R., 175.
“There were all …”: McCullough, Mornings, 336.
“the still, merciless …”: Morris, The Rise, 288.
“I shall call …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 89.
“that keenest of …”: Morris, The Rise, 291.
“sweet manner”: Morris, The Rise, 309.
“air of softness …” and “You have no …”: Morris, The Rise, 358.
“Edith we have …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 107.
“I utterly disbelieve …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 106.
“You could not …”: Brands, T.R., 201.
“He is one …”: Harbaugh, Power, 62.
“major part of …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 95.
“one of the …”: Harbaugh, Power, 48.
CHAPTER 5
“we love a …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 133.
“If you wish …”: Brands, T.R., 202.
“The boy is …”: Brands, T.R., 216.
“too sweet and …”: Brands, T.R., 217.
“one of the …”: Miller, A Life, 131.
“drank like a …”: Miller, A Life, 130.
“literary feller”: Miller, A Life, 201.
“I shall probably …”: Morris, The Rise, 391.
“tinglingly alive, masculine …”: Harbaugh, Power, 51.
“writing is horribly …”: Brands, T.R., 212.
“write some book …”: Brands, T.R., 214.
“swinish butchers”: Morris, The Rise, 387.
“I do fear …”: Harbaugh, Power, 74.
CHAPTER 6
“first a good …”: Morris, The Rise, 407.
159,356 federal jobs: Historical Statistics of the United States.
“I am a …”: Harbaugh, Power, 75.
“Alice needs someone …”: Brands, T.R., 235.
“nightmare of horror”: Morris, The Rise, 438.
“It is horrible …”: Morris, The Rise, 440.
“is to do the work …”: Morris, The Rise, 446.
“Elliott Roosevelt Insane …”: Morris, The Rise, 452.
“What a hideous …”: Brands, T.R., 247.
“settle the thing …”: Brands, T.R., 249.
“hypocritical haberdasher!”: Morris, The Rise, 413.
“The exposure he …”: Morris, The Rise, 464.
“His colleagues were …”: Harbaugh, Power, 77.
“are handed down …”: Harbaugh, Power, 76.
“Elliott has sunk …” “I do wish …” and “more overcome than …”: Brands, T.R., 259.
“I used to …”: Miller, A Life, 215.
“I must make …”: Harbaugh, Power, 82.
“We have a …” and “he has great …”: Harbaugh, Power, 83.
“closing all of …”: Harbaugh, Power, 84.
“A taste for …”: Brands, T.R., 299.
“You may easily …”: Brands, T.R., 302.
CHAPTER 7
“We need a …”: Miller, A Life, 253.
“I hope to …”: Morris, The Rise, 624.
“We ought to …”: Morris, The Rise, 545.
“The secretary is …”: Miller, A Life, 257.
“The decks are …”: Miller, A Life, 258.
“I did not …”: Harbaugh, Power, 95.
“the instigator of …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 135.
“I want my …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 558.
“to be all …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 171.
“never press Ted …”: Brands, T.R., 336.
“an act of …”: Morris, The Rise, 627.
“Blood on the …”: Miller, A Life, 259.
“To Hell with …”: Miller, A Life, 271.
“the policy of …”: Morris, The Rise, 630.
“offensive operations in …”: Morris, The Rise, 629.
“During my short …”: Morris, The Rise, 630.
“If I am …”: Miller, A Life, 173.
“I have a …”: Brands, T.R., 333.
“has lost his …”: Morris, The Rise, 644.
“I know now …”: Miller, A Life, 273.
“He felt he …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 171.
“as typical an …”: Brands, T.R., 341.
“The folly, the …”: Morris, The Rise, 639.
“Yesterday we struck …”: Brands, T.R., 349.
“fight really was …”: Morris, The Rise, 676.
“It was a …”: Brands, T.R., 352.
“The instant I …” and “Mauser bullets drove …”: Brands, T.R., 353.
“the most conspicuous …”: Brands, T.R., 356.
“walked to greet …”: Miller, A Life, 303.
“reveling in victory …” and “Look at all …”: Morris, The Rise, 687.
“the fragrant air …”: Morris, The Rise, 688.
“double up … like …”: Miller, A Life, 304.
“For three days …”: Miller, A Life, 305.
“I really believe …”: Morris, The Rise, 688.
“criminally incompetent”: Morris, The Rise, 659.
“San Juan was …”: Brands, T.R., 357.
“no corporation would …”: Harbaugh, Power, 166.
“more than a …”: Miller, A Life, 331.
“high monied interests …”: Miller, A Life, 337.
“rather be in …”: Miller, A Life, 338.
“The vice president …”: Miller, A Life, 346.
CHAPTER 8
“It is a …”: Brands, T.R., 418.
“I feel that …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 207.
“I feel as …”: Morris, Rex, 46.
“Now that I …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 221.
“His offices were …”: Miller, A Life, 359.
“to continue absolutely …”: Brands, T.R., 418.
“I told William …”: Brinkley, American History, 642.
“Theodore do not …”: Morris, Rex, 39.
“President dines a …”: Morris, Rex, 55.
“the most damnable …” “No one could …” and “a good citizen …”: Brands, T.R., 423.
“The “‘Rough Rider’ …”: Brands, T.R., 430.
“the Oyster Bay …”: Morris, Rex, 43.
“the wildest scramble …” and “no tree too …”: Eyewitnesstohistory. com.
“Hurrah for Roosevelt”: Miller, A Life, 414.
“I was very …”: Brands, T.R., 431.
“one of the …”: Cordery, Alice, 51.
“I can be …”: Brands, T.R., 521.
“is too sweet …”: Brands, T.R., 433.
“Great corpo
rations exist …”: Morris, Rex, 73.
“wicked … foolish”: Brands, T.R., 438.
“the strangest creature …”: Morris, Rex, 108.
“You must always …”: Morris, Rex, 81.
“Theodore is never …”: Morris, Rex, 82.
“The coal presidents …”: Morris, Rex, 133.
“The rights and …”: Brands, T.R., 457.
“winter fuel famine”: Morris, Rex, 152.
“Unless you end …”: Morris, Rex, 51.
“The urgency and …”: Brands, T.R., 454.
“outlaws” and “instigators of violence …”: Brands, T.R., 457.
“If it wasn’t …”: Brands, T.R., 455.
“I could not …”: Miller, A Life, 374.
“I don’t think …”: Miller, A Life, 423.
“civilized and orderly …”: Miller, A Life, 385.
“Any country whose …”: Brands, T.R., 526.
“chronic wrongdoing” and “general loosening of …”: Brands, T.R., 543.
“orderly freedom” and “teach the people …”: Morris, Rex, 110.
“the great bit …”: Morris, Rex, 116.
“bar one of …”: Brands, T.R., 482.
“would have been …” and “The world is …”: Miller, A Life, 406.
“Have swept the …”: Brands, T.R., 513.
“I have the …”: Miller, A Life, 435.
“My dear, I …”: Miller, A Life, 436.
“Under no circumstances …”: Brands, T.R., 514.
CHAPTER 9
“Tomorrow I shall …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 271.
“I was thoroughly …” and “The Japs interest …”: Brands, T.R., 531.
“I have led …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 284.
“It’s a mighty …”: Morris, Rex, 414.
“Of course he’s …”: Brands, T.R., 558.
“child wife”: Dalton, Strenuous, 278.
“Trinkets. Preferably diamond …”: Morris, Rex, 436.
“Father always wanted …”: Encarta, 802.
“I want you …”: Morris, Rex, 437.
“unrestricted and ill-regulated …”: Harbaugh, Power, 522.
“ ‘Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard’ ”: Miller, A Life, 460.
“The information given …” and “drastic and thoroughgoing”: Brands, T.R., 550.
“government ought not …”: Miller, A Life, 464.
“The rate bill …”: Brands, T.R., 547.
“It has been …”: Miller, A Life,462.
“an historic event”: Harbaugh, Power, 252.
“We bought the …”: Miller, A Life, 440.
“We are prone …”: Brands, T.R., 624.
“the fundamental problem …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 338.
“did many notable …”: Morris, Rex, 338.
“school without permission …”: Kraft, Champion, 127.
“certain malefactors of …”: Brands, T.R., 619.
“I am absolutely …”: Morris, Rex, 501.
“The result justified …”: Miller, A Life,478.
“speak softly and …”: Morris, Rex, 215.
“Did you ever …”: Brands, T.R., 613.
“Taft is a …”: Brands, T.R., 594.
“How is the …”: Brands, T.R., 593.
“a huge pan …”: Morris, Rex, 543.
“far back as …”: Morris, Rex, 308.
“There has never …”: Brands, T.R., 626.
“the most popular …”: Morris, Rex, 430.
“Four more years” and “We want Teddy”: Morris, Rex, 525.
“His refusal of …”: Brands, T.R., 627.
“Always excepting Washington …”: Brands, T.R., 628.
“I have enjoyed …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 344.
“if there is …”: Morris, Rex, 527.
“I am heartbroken …”: Brands, T.R., 636.
“Another chapter is …”: Morris, Rex, 549.
CHAPTER 10
“such a shout …”: Brands, T.R., 669.
“have just heard …”: Harbaugh, Power, 387.
“Unfortunately my infernal …”: Brands, T.R., 687.
“puts the national …”: Harbaugh, Power, 368.
“citizens of the …”: Brands, T.R., 676.
“steward of public welfare”: Brinkley, American History, 649.
“essence of the …”: Harbaugh, Power, 367.
“I am really …”: Brands, T.R., 698.
“I have reveled …”: Brands, T.R., 686.
“Home, wife, children …”: Brands, T.R., 682.
“is a flubdub …”: Harbaugh, Power, 399.
“I don’t think …”: Harbaugh, Power, 401.
“maudlin folly” and “The truth is …”: Harbaugh, Power, 400.
“Taft is utterly …”: Miller, A Life, 521.
“I think well …” and “With most of …”: Brands, T.R., 683.
“Real danger would …”: Harbaugh, Power, 413.
“I have had …”: Brands, T.R., 706.
“I think she …”: Brands, T.R., 710.
“with mind heart …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 381.
“stony and unsympathetic” and “making an uphill …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 387.
“campaign is all …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 386.
“daring of a …” “the instincts of …” “the most cunning …” and “invitation to anarchy”: Dalton, Strenuous, 385.
“a dangerous egotist” and “flatterer of the …”: Brands, T.R., 712.
“Such extremists are …”: Brands, T.R., 709.
“Mr Taft only …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 388.
“fathead” and “puzzlewit”: Brands, T.R., 712.
“fight in honorable …”: Dalton, Strenuous, 389.
“bull moose”: Miller, A Life, 525.
“We who are …”: Brands, T.R., 714.
“Thou shall not steal”: Harbaugh, Power, 435.
“At Three o’Clock …” and “The time is …”: Brands, T.R., 719.
“There are so …”: Brinkley, American History, 653.
“Roosevelt was my …”: Brands, T.R., 707.
“My feeling is …”: Brands, T.R., 717.
“Well, we have …”: Brands, T.R., 725.
“unspeakably lonesome”: Dalton, Strenuous, 408.
“When it is …”: Miller, A Life,532.
CHAPTER 11
“I despise Wilson”: Brands, T.R., 773.
“cult of cowardice”: Dalton, Strenuous, 458.
“I so strongly …”: Brands, T.R., 786.
“I would literally …”: Brands, T.R., 784.
“It’s rather up …”: Miller, A Life, 557.
“It is a …”: Brands, T.R., 786.
“The Republicans are …”: Brands, T.R., 773.
“the American people …”: Brands, T.R., 766.
“The Bugle That …”: Miller, A Life, 542.
“one hundred percent Americanism”: Miller, A Life, 558.
“hyphenated Americans”: Brands, T.R., 762.
“In this war …” and “We must have …”: Miller, A Life, 558.
“pacifist” “Woodrow Wilson” and “would make the …”: Miller, A Life, 544.
“utter, print, write …”: www.u-s-history.com.
“I wake up …”: Miller, A Life, 560.
“I am so …”: Brands, T.R., 796.
“war is hell” and “gross understatement”: Dalton, Strenuous, 495.
“a hero in …” and “You don’t know …”: Brands, T.R., 792.
“immensely excited by …”: Miller, A Life, 561.
“man could have …”: Brands, T.R., 800.
“his voice choking …”: Brands, T.R., 799.
“Poor Quinikins”: Brands, T.R., 802.
“I feel as …”: Miller, A Life, 560.
“I am the …”: Miller, A Life, 564.
“the eleventh hour …”: Neiberg, Fighting, 361.
“Father
is flat …”: Miller, A Life, 564.
“dancing of the …” and “spoke of the …”: Miller, A Life, 565.
“James, will you …”: Brands, T.R., 811.
“old lion”: Miller, A Life, 566.
“Only those are …”: Brands, T.R., 815.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blum, John Morton. The Republican Roosevelt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954.
Brands, H. W. T. R.: The Last Romantic. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Brinkley, Alan. American History, 8th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Carter, Susan B., Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, Gavin Wright, editors. Historical Statistics of the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Cordery, Stacy A. Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. New York: Viking, 2007.
Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life.New York: Random House, 2002.
Eyewitnesstohistory.com. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/trwhitehouse.htm.
Harbaugh, William Henry. Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1961.
Kraft, Betsy Harvey. Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the Human Spirit. New York: Clarion Books, 2003.
McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
Miller, Nathan. Theodore Roosevelt: A Life. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
———. Theodore Rex. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
Mowry, George E. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900-1912. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Neiberg, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Online Highways. Sedition Act of 1918. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1345.html.
Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography. New York: De Capo Press, 1985.