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

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

    A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
    Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)

    Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
    Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)