Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Jump

• I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wife

• What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Lost

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Good
  • Desire

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Eye
  • Nothing

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Band
  • Listening
  • Moment

• You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Beginning

• I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Ideas
  • Try
  • Handle

• I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Courage
  • Weakness
  • Wicked

• Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • World
  • Words

• If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Country

• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Country
  • Real
  • Truth