Quotes About Edmund Morris

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

He is recognized as the world authority on big American game mammals, and is an ornithologist of some note. Stooping to pick a speck of brown fluff off the White House lawn, he will murmur, "Very early for a fox sparrow!"84

He plunged at once into the somewhat rodent-like life of a professional historian.

Roosevelt was relieved to hear the good news. "I don't care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don't want to see them go down the first day I am President!

demonstrators against bloodsports are "logical vegetarians of the flabbiest Hindoo type." President

He might have to spend the rest of his presidency answering to the two classes of people always most vociferous in hard times: the bewildered and the guilty.

Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'