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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order durin...
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RHETT DAWSON I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to...
ANN RICHARDS During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID GERGEN No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about...
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VICTOR J. BANIS When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT the smartest man in the world
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MARTIN O'MALLEY You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a littl...
ROBERT FERRIGNO What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans na...
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LANGSTON HUGHES Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched p...
WALTER LIPPMANN It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roo...
NEWT GINGRICH I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roo...
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CHRISTINE PELOSI We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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CHRISTINA ROMER I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
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RAM SHRIRAM Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
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DAVID LUBARS I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But m...
AARON SORKIN But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this cou...
DENNIS KUCINICH You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.
KEVIN J. DONALDSON Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-Am...
KAI BIRD In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America'...
ROBERT DALLEK It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on dow...
JAMES ROOSEVELT I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. ...
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DEYTH BANGER Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
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UNKNOWN And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your...
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT