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

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

    “Here Skugg
    Lies snug
    As a bug
    In a rug”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The gay world that flourished in the half-century between 1890 and the beginning of the Second World War, a highly visible, remarkably complex, and continually changing gay male world, took shape in New York City.... It is not supposed to have existed.”
    —George Chauncey, U.S. educator, author. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, p. 1, Basic Books (1994)