F. D. Roosevelt Quotes
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.
There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.
We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.
John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.
Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.
He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.
If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.
The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.
In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay
Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.
After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.
In time of war, it is not enough to say, ‘I am a citizen and I have rights.’ One must also say, ‘I am a citizen and I have obligations.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
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.