Best 16 quotes of John Taliaferro on MyQuotes

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

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

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

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

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

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

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

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

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.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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