#side

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

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#coin #humor #see #sides #three

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#entering #eternal #eternal world #i #i think

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#balance #certain #challenges #conservatives #fiscal