#sid

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#back #behavior #campaign #car #everybody

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#bodies #completely #decisions #dominated #expression

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#both #cannot #justice #must #side

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#congressmen #country #democracy #forget #government

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bad luck #bird #consider #early #early bird

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#dispose #duty #president #privilege #propose

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#appointed #budget #changes #congressional #even

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#delano #down #folks #franklin #grandfather

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american public #announce #criticism #morally #must

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. ↗

— Elihu Root

#compels #considerate #constitute #constitutional #constitutional government