Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Quotes to Explore
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.
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I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.
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No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
