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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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.
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Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying to reach swing voters, if you're trying to reach people on the fence, if you're trying to reach Republicans who are unsure about this candidate... get people who switched! Get people who are registered Republicans. Get people who were George Bush voters who can't bring themselves to do it again. Talk to them, get them to explain what their reasons are, and show them to people. What's wrong with this idea?!
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
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No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
