#roosevelt

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#attack #back #bargain #collectively #expression

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. ↗

— John Perkins

#caught #embarrassing #had #lot #roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

Well," Mr. Cheeseman interjected. "Perhaps there's an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego." "What's an alter ego?" asked Gerard. "It's a superhero's true but secret identity," said Chip. "You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent." "Superman is really Clark Kent?" "It's pretty obvious," said Penny. "To everyone but you and Lois Lane." "Okay," Gerard conceded. "Captain Fabulous's alter ego will be...Teddy Roosevelt. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#clark-kent #funny #lois-lane #names #superhero

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#law #respect #respect

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#love #respect #love

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#could #facet #his #how #i

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. ↗

— Clifton Daniel

#house #i #intimately #more #president

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#before #broken #determined #died #eastern

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #complicated #franklin #franklin roosevelt #geometric