Thursday, 6 March 2025

Happiest when he conquers, but quite happy if he only fights

Teddy is consumed with energy as long as he is doing something and fighting somebody … he always finds something to do and somebody to fight. Poor Cabot must be successful; while Teddy is happiest when he conquers, but quite happy if he only fights.

Cecil Spring Rice, cited in E. Morris, The rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), 486 

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