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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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
