#roosevelt

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

#eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #feel #give #inferior

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#did #essential #franklin #franklin roosevelt #john

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#also #fear #freedom #freedom from #only

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

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

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#fdr #monopoly #new-deal #roosevelt #business

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-understand-its-meaning #life

Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil by the jeers of associates who have no one quality that calls for respect, but who affect to laugh at the very traits which ought to be peculiarly the cause for pride. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt ridicule bullying

#respect

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ↗

— John Boehner

#bush #colleagues #dealt #difficult #down