#roosevelt

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

Well-behaved women seldom make history. ↗

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

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

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. ↗

— Patty Duke

#award #eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #i #received

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#did #estates #fact #matter #pay

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ↗

— Lena Horne

#belongs #brave #clubs #exceptions #few

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. ↗

— David Bruce

#conversations #derived #entirely #health #knowledge

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ↗

— George C. Marshall

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