James Roosevelt quote: "It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: "Be sincere... be brief... be seated."
JAMES ROOSEVELT

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health issue and the Mass Red Ribbon Ride is an important ca...
JAMES ROOSEVELT

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
JAMES ROOSEVELT

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the ne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel ho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmar...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certai...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obs...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, wa...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was eith...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he sho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the worl...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom thi...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peop...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not gui...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loude...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Understanding is a two-way street.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do one thing every day that scares you.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say
yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!
Eleanore Roosevelt
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real de...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

What one has to do usually can be done.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

You always admire what you really don't understand.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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