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| This nation asks for action, and action now. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 volumes, New York (1938-1950). FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 1, the first inaugural—”Nothing to Fear,” ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). Eleanor Roosevelt commented later that the overwhelming ovation which greeted this statement in FDR’s first inaugural was frightening and that if her husband had been less a democrat he could have assumed dictatorial powers with little opposition (interview with Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park, N.Y., Summer, 1959). ~ |
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| Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now.... [The Nazis] have made it clear that not only do they intend to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Europe, and then to use the resources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Speech, December 29, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Unedited Speeches and Messages, Harper (1942). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939-1945, pp. 13-14, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1990). The President tried to convince Americans that Hitler’s plans of aggression did not stop on the shores of the Atlantic. ~ |
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| Despite the great differences in the objectives of the two men, there are important similarities between them. The most obvious ones are in the area of personality. Both presidents had a quick smile and a pleasant air about them. People liked Roosevelt, as they did Reagan, almost without regard for his policies.... Both men led charmed political lives, in which they were praised for everything people liked, while the blame for all problems fell on others. FDR was a “Teflon president” long before Teflon was invented. After Roosevelt had won re-election to a second term, he had the temerity to point out that “one-third of the nation” was “ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” And in his re-election campaign in 1984, Reagan continued to run against the “gov-mint,” as he disdainfully pronounced it, even after having been in charge of it for nearly four years. And Franklin Roosevelt was the first “media president,” clearly deserving the title “Great Communicator.” He charmed radio listeners much as Reagan did his television audiences. |
| ~ Robert S. McElvaine (b. 1947), U.S. historian, educator. The End of the Conservative Era, ch. 1, Arbor House (1987). ~ |
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| We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “The City in Modern Life,” Literary Essays (vol. 12 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), p. 226 (1926). Book review in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1895. ~ |
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| No man is happy who does not think himself so. |
| ~ Publilius Syrus ~ |
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| Be mine the tomb that swallowed up Pharaoh and all his hosts; let me lie down with Drake, where he sleeps in the sea. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 19, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Boldness. ~ |
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