Roosevelt

Famous quotes containing the word roosevelt:

    Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    Don’t forget what I discovered—that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)