Franklin D Roosevelt/governor of New York 1929%e2%80%931932

Famous quotes containing the words franklin d, franklin, roosevelt, governor and/or york:

    I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    No nation was ever ruined by trade.
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)