Franklin Quote by Jacob K. Javits

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

— Drew Carey

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their…

— Barack Obama

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant…

— Walter Lippmann

I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.

— Ryan Zinke

It's hard pressed to find a better American role model than Teddy Roosevelt.

— Ethan Carter III

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

— Robert Dallek

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of…

— David Herbert Donald

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an…

— Pat Buchanan

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

— Gary Hart

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern…

— J. William Fulbright