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

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

    “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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

    “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)

    “Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)