Roosevelt Quotes

174 quotes by 137 authors

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI… — Michele Bachmann
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
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant… — Russell Baker
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. — Russell Baker
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
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
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
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian… — Drew Carey
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. — Winston Churchill
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. — Emanuel Celler
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. — Gale Norton
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. — Winston Churchill
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… — John Burroughs
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language… — Peter Agre
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' — Esther Peterson
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. — Ralph McGill
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some… — Albert Einstein

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