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

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

    “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    “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)

    “New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)