Robert Dallek Quotes
... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
Dallek, Robert. Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents. Hyperion, 1996.
In a variant of Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904} Caro focused on what people did with power once they had achieved it. This, he believed, revealed character.
Sometimes misattributed to Abraham Lincoln, this quote has many forms but Ingersoll appears to have have written the earliest (which was written about Lincoln). Ingersoll’s original quote: “Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.”
At the age of 34 he had become the Union's first victorious general, in a minor skirmish in West Virginia. He was then named commanding general of the Army of the Potomac.
Mytilene was at war with Athens. Pittacus suggested that instead of the armies fighting, the war should be decided by a battle between him and the Athenian General who accepted. Pittacus won and was the Ruler of Athens, where he became quite popular. He wrote all his laws and decrees in poetry. He resigned after 10 years. He was considered one of the 7 great Greek Sages.
Robert A. Dallek is an American historian specializing in the presidents of the United States, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. He retired as a history professor at Boston University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Oxford University. He won the Bancroft Prize for his 1979 book Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 as well as other awards for scholarship and teaching.
