Top 20 John Taliaferro Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

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#3. My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

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#4. In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

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#5. 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.

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#6. William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United

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#7. If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

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#8. Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

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#9. Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

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#10. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

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#11. Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

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#12. He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.

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#13. John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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

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#16. The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace

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#17. He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

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#18. He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

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#19. The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

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#20. When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

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