Roosevelt Quotes
174 quotes by 137 authors
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
— Winston Churchill
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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
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[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
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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
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
— Esther Peterson
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She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
— Ralph McGill
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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
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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
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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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