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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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JOHN LEWIS GADDIS Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close tie...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
BOB EDWARDS The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order durin...
HELEN THOMAS The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.
JOHN OXFORD It's a first step to bringing our system into the 21st century.
DAN COUGHLIN Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS the plague of the 21st century.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The 21st century simply means open century.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do...
THOMAS HARDY I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roo...
NEWT GINGRICH Twitter is the samizdat of the 21st Century.
JOHN KNAPP DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century,
JOHN WALSH The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calami...
MITT ROMNEY a transportation hub worthy of the 21st century.
GEORGE PATAKI Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
DAISAKU IKEDA During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT 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 Satanism could become the major religion of the 21st century.
ANTON LAVEY we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.
MITT ROMNEY Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
LINDA COLLISON Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDY In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some cl...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn o...
MARTIN O'MALLEY The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.
ANN SMITH School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
TED CRUZ If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched p...
WALTER LIPPMANN My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human...
SHINZO ABE When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH We have a late 19th, 20th century way of looking at textbooks. This is the 21st century.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN JACKIE GOLDBERG We're trying to move into the 21st century.
JUDITH YOUNG Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?
SUNDAY ADELAJA Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
JOHN DOERR For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and South Korea are heavily investing in nuclear arms. Since 21st ...
ÓSCAR ARIAS One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Tha...
CHELSEA CLINTON Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the “sons of God.
DAVID C. ALVES The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti...
JOEL OSTEEN We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
BARACK OBAMA Your 20th century expertise is outdated in a 21st century world
CLYDE DESOUZA The first decade of the 21st century is a defining moment for the Hispanic population and for the na...
MARTA TIENDA This is a battle, but it's not the war. We consider this one of the civil-rights issues of the 21st ...
CLARK NEILY The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST In the 21st century, large is no longer in charge.
SUMNER REDSTONE My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard o...
EDWARD O. WILSON The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our...
JOE BIDEN 16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the p...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to...
WAYNE SWAN We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.
JARROD AGEN I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic dea...
RAHM EMANUEL Several major educational trends are shaping the planning and design of 21st-century schools.
JEFFERY LACKNEY Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Centur...
A.E. SAMAAN I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN Our goal is to preserve the past using 21st century technology.
JAMES D. WATSON It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on dow...
JAMES ROOSEVELT The most expensive item for sale in the 21st century is information
SUNDAY ADELAJA It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
DAVID SOUL I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT For far too many people, 19th century working and living standards will continue unchanged into the ...
BILL JORDAN I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
HILLARY CLINTON 21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.
PAUL GIBBONS Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His ...
CHRISTINA ROMER The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-gene...
CHRISTINE PELOSI You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean ...
WAYNE SWAN The free and civilized nations of the world have joined hands to press the first great struggle for ...
JEAN CHRETIEN They're finally looking forward with a plan to enter the 21st century.
HARRELL SMITH could have a tremendous impact on the judiciary well into the 21st century.
RALPH NEAS FDR’s struggle with illness and subsequent metal-filled life are remarkably similar to the story o...
DANIEL O'BRIEN I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American wo...
ELAINE CHAO The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century...
WILLIAM SCRANTON Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fat...
BERNIE SANDERS We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end ...
FELIX DENNIS I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to...
ANN RICHARDS I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
EDNITA NAZARIO We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...
ABERJHANI This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th centur...
DAILY EXPRESS One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're alrea...
LáSZLó KRASZNAHORKAI This is a really talented guy that is really in the 21st Century.
BILL POWER What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.
BRUCE LOWE For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
PENN JILLETTE I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold W...
JULIAN CASTRO Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jack...
JUSTICE ROBERT JACKSON The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international ...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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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 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