Franklin Roosevelt Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,…
— Russell Baker
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what…
— Joe Biden
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It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've…
— John Boehner
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston Churchill
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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
— H.G. Wells
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Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to…
— Pete du Pont
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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
— Pete du Pont
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Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure…
— Charles S. Maier
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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
— David Gergen
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to…
— James A. Michener
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My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
— Gaylord Nelson
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The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when…
— Gaylord Nelson
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
— Ken Livingstone
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then…
— Ben Bernanke
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If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and…
— George Will
Who Wrote These Franklin Roosevelt Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Franklin Roosevelt Quotes as follows: