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

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

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

    “When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “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)

    “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe ... it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
    —Le Corbusier [Charle Édouard Jeanne] (1887–1965)