... of the Democracy profess to be exultant as it, and to see in it a chance for securing their own return to power. Senator Hill and Tammany in particular have loudly welcomed the contest." (Published in The Essential Teddy Roosevelt (26) edited by John Gabriel Hunt.) In his speech he goes ... same speech, " I have small sympathy with those people who are always destroying good man and good causes because they are not the best of all possible men- He said he would recognize no party in trying to attain a better New York City. After this speech more arrests were made ... go far." Taking his ...

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... theatre, the opera, and always an omnivorous reader. He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. For two years he edited the influential Brooklyn Eagle , but he lost ... commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. Probably the most famous quote was given by President Kennedy "his death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy an...

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