“It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt. — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt” — George Ilian Copy Share Image
“I do not mind riding in day coaches...Please do not put yourself or the railroad to extra expense.--First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt” — Marc Peyser Copy Share Image
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; “a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Effective leaders at a high level tend to be skilled actors. Franklin Roosevelt is said to have to quipped, on being introduced… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“The loyalty of those around Truman was total and would never falter. In years to come not one member of the Truman… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Eleanor was a member of one of America’s great families, niece to Teddy Roosevelt and a distant cousin of her future husband.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war,” Roosevelt told the spellbound… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
![“And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which is a framework of discipline and order) is also a very encouraging and loving one.” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_discipline_and-her-eleanor-roosevelt-grandmother-ha_759497.jpg)
![“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption…” quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f1/blanche-wiesen-cook-13340_bigs_it-s-interesting-to-me-that-really-one-o_2389950.jpg)
![“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/william-a-rusher-20922_active_that-was-a-general-impression-that-one-g_1572497.jpg)
![“[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need was not unique: that he was not yearning to travel two thousand miles on bad trains to support the reelection campaign of a county sheriff, or to address the…” quote by Edmund Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f36/edmund-morris-26008_foreign-travel_theodore-roosevelt-had-long-ago-discover_2472630.jpg)
