#roosevelt

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democratic #democratic party #democrats #franklin #franklin roosevelt

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #change

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#grave #his #over #roosevelt #today

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#eleanor-roosevelt #individuality #courage

Well-behaved women seldom make history. ↗

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#it-s-so-true #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #women #inspirational

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,' he told the audience, '. . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#government #inauguration #progress #roosevelt #wpa

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#recycled-by-bil-keane #recycled-by-eleanor-roosevelt #children